From: shankar@chromatic.com (Shankar Unni) Subject: .vs. 30 Jan 1997 12:12:19 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32F0EDF7.6942.cygnus.gnu-win32@chromatic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com There are a couple of reasons why we have this problem: Technically, the ANSI C++ committee is off the hook, because they have mandated that C++ include files be included simply as , , etc., and so it should be possible to distinguish between and . In practice, however, 100% of all C++ installations still ship their files using a .h suffix, and we have a clash. Remember that ANSI C++ still grandfathers in the file from C, so we have a situation in which C++ implementations have to ship both files, and given the case-insensitive nature of many file systems, they have a problem on their hands. This situation won't fix itself until either the String name is changed (very, very unlikely), or until GNU C++ moves to using the notation for all its C++ header filenames (which will hopefully be sooner - there are ways to minimise the pain of migration when this happens). -- Shankar Unni shankar@chromatic.com Chromatic Research (408) 752-9488 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".