On 01/09/15 15:26, Mikhail Maltsev wrote: > On 09/01/2015 01:54 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >> With the machinery for the git conversion now in reasonable shape, it's >> time to ask GCC's developers in general: what do you want this >> conversion to accomplish? > There was some discussion concerning file renaming: > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2015-04/msg00175.html > > I think using different extensions for C and C++ code is a good thing > (because having > C++ code in ".c" files is confusing both for humans and for tools), and > probably > moving to git is a good occasion for such rename. > I could take care of performing this change (i.e. make a list of C++ files > with .c > extension, fix build scripts, run some tests), if it is acceptable. >
Renaming the files during the conversion is clearly *not* the right thing to do: it would break all builds of old code. Whether the renames should be done post conversion is a completely different question. Personally, I don't see the point. R.
