On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 12:31 -0600, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> > 2009-02-09 16:22:36 Hyrum K. Wright napisał(a):
> >> Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> >>> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> >>>> 2009-02-09 03:38:18 Hyrum K. Wright napisał(a):
> >>>>> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> >>>>>> Author: arfrever
> >>>>>> Date: Sun Feb 8 18:36:08 2009
> >>>>>> New Revision: 35748
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Log:
> >>>>>> Use '.sql_h' filename extension for headers generated from '.sql' files.
> >>>>> Yes, but Why?
> >>>> This filename extension (or .sql.h) allows to easier distinguish headers generated from .sql files.
> >>> Does the text "This file is automatically generated from foo.sql" not accomplish
> >>> the same goal? Why not encode this redundancy in the source file, or even the
> >>> source file name (e.g., rep-cache-db.sql) instead of in *two* different
> >>> locations in the build system? It seems a bit redundant and cryptic.
> >>>
> >>> Btw, I had this conversation with somebody in IRC (and maybe should have
> >>> recorded it here) when the change was made from .sql.h to .h. I originally felt
> >>> that we should munge the output filename somehow, but further consideration has
> >>> led me to be against such.
> >> One more problem: we lose automatic syntax highlighting with the munged
> >> extension.
> >
> > :set filetype=c
> >
> >> Can you please further justify this change, or revert it?
> >
> > This change allows to genericize the 'fast-clean' target in Makefile.in.
>
> Well, I seem to be the only one to cares about painting this bikeshed purple, so
> I'll concede. But I do so under protest. :P
It looks to me like it was a bit ugly before this change, and is a bit
ugly after this change, just in a different way.
- Julian
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