"John Maddock" <john@[...].uk>  writes:

> >Err.  The whole point of using ".hpp" was so that we could quickly
> >search through all the C++ source files with a simple filename
> >globbing pattern.  This is one of the first conventions we
> >established, at Nico's wise insistence.  At least use ".ipp", please!
> 
>  ipp is normally used for header includes, which these are not.  

I don't care whether it's ipp, hpp, cpp, or foopp as long as it ends
in pp.

>  Note that we also have *.inc in use in other libraries (personally
>  I'm less keen on this because my IDE doesn't recognise the
>  extension).  

Point being?  Those should be fixed.

>  BTW, the code has been this way since the config system
>  review, and is documented as using this convention.  It would have
>  been helpful for issues like this to be raised at review time

I don't remember that review, but if I had known about the use of cxx
I certainly would've raised the issue.

>  , otherwise we loose the cvs history for very little benefit.

It isn't neccessary to lose the cvs history.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com

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