Re: [RFC] Build System Documentation

Gabriela Gibson wrote on Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 21:15:18 +0000:
> On 22/02/13 20:09, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >Gabriela Gibson wrote on Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 17:13:08 +0000:
> >>On 20/02/13 21:06, Ben Reser wrote:
> >>>You skipped the primary function of gen-make.py which is caused by
> >>>this call "generator.write()".
> >>
> >>There are two gen-make.py files -- I was describing /trunk/gen-make.py.
> >>
> >>It may be worthwhile to rename the /trunk/gen-make.py if that is possible.
> >>
> >
> >There's just one. build/generator/gen_make.py has an underscore.
> >
> <picky>
> I think that there is too little difference between '_' and '-'.
> </picky>
>

The ambiguity never occurred to me. Maybe because gen-make.py is
sometimes run manually, while gen_make.py is never called directly by
the developer.

> That said, does the '-' have a different meaning than '_'? (In the
> same spirit that anything starting '__' is not for public
> consumption.)

None. '-' is easier to type, and '_' is required if the file basename
needs to be usable in Python 'import' statements.
Received on 2013-02-23 13:48:41 CET