[Qgis-developer] Makefile rule naming convention: prefer dash to underscore ?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> I was looking at the new "staged-plugins" rule and to my disappontment
> I found it being "staged_plugins". I dunno what kind of keyboard you
> have by on mine it takes 2 fingers to produce a "_" sign while it
> takes a single one to do "-".
>
> This is an important barrier to usability !
>
> Would you mind if I change all rules to use "-" instead of "_" ?
>
> For reference, GNU standard Makefile targets exist with "-"
> but none exist with "_":
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html#Standard-Targets
>

+1 to change it to -

Regards

Tim

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