Re: linux kernel conf 0.8

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 09:07:44 EST


Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>
>>Well, my basic preference is
>>
>>* something other than Config.new (the original name in your config system)
>>* something other than Config.in
>>
>>I think it is a mistake to name a totally different format the same name
>>as an older format... even "config.in" would be better than "Config.in"...
>
>
> My first plan was to use Config.in, but I can't overwrite the old files
> yet, so I named it Config.new.

yeah, I understood it was a temporary name, I just wanted to make sure
the name was changed fairly soonish, so we could have this filename
debate :)

> Personally I only prefer that it starts
> with a capital letter (like Makefile, Readme), so it's at the top of a
> dir listing, but otherwise I don't care much about the name.

That's fine with me. My only preference is anything-but-Config.in, for
the reason stated in the last email...

        Jeff

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