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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:07:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Shared vs Static [WAS: Re: [general] some ideas & request for comments (LONG)]
To: Michael Ring <m DOT ring AT ndh DOT net>,
        "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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This is my two cents on naming.

First I've never really liked the fact that the library names don't reflect
whether they are static or import dll libs.  So, here is my suggestion for
naming.

If the library is an import library to a dll just name it libfoo.dll.a and if
it is a static library then name it libfoo.a.  I don't like libfoo.so or
libfoo.so.a or libfoo.dll.so because the so library is the dynamic library and
not the import library.

Cheers,

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