[Zlib-devel] zlib-1.2.3-cos4

[Glenn Randers-Pehrson]

At 12:11 AM 8/17/2006 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>* Mark Adler <madler at alumni.caltech.edu> schrieb:
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>> Unless you have a compelling reason for the change of zconf.in.h to  
>> zconf.h.in, I want to leave it zconf.in.h. 
>
>I have: 
>
>+ naming it .h.in is much more obvious than .in.h, because its an 
>  own step building .h from its source .h.in - this is what on
>  GNU'ish packages ./configure does.
>+ this way is the standard for such things, people tend to 
>  expect it this way.

I prefer *h.in as well, for the same reasons.  The usual expectation
is to operate on a file according to its suffix, then remove the suffix.

e.g., without any explanation other than the filename, you'll understand
   zconf.h.in.tar.bz2

Glenn