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.

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