Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book

From: Markus Heiser
Date: Wed Oct 19 2016 - 10:54:29 EST



Am 19.10.2016 um 01:25 schrieb Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>:

> On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:20:18 -0200
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> While at it, how about unifying some of the FilenamesInCamelCase,
>>> filenames-with-hyphens, and filenames_with_underscores too...? To at
>>> least move things towards just one of them within one directory.
>>
>> Sure, let's do it. I would just keep README as README.rst , as people
>> are more used to see readme files on upercases.
>>
>> For the rest, what's your preference?
>>
>> - FooBar.rst
>> - foo_bar.rst
>> - foo-bar.rst
>>
>> My personal preference is for "foo-bar".
>
> I guess that would be mine too. CamelCase is not generally all that
> popular in kernel space. On one hand, I worry about further renaming
> files that we're already moving; on the other, if we're going to do it, I
> guess this would be the time, when people will have to look for them
> anyway...

OT / but related to sphinx extension: python files should not named "foo-bar" [1].
I you do so, you can't use them as regular modules ...

>>> import foo-bar
File "<console>", line 1
import foo-bar
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Hope there comes the time, we rename Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py
and make a py-package from the sphinx folder.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#package-and-module-names
>
> jon
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