Re: Heads up: cli subdirectory check in tonight

[Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 03:53:10AM +0000, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > It seems weird to have cli/cli-<xxx>.  I would think moving them to a new
> > subdirectory, you could rename them to cli/<xxx>.
> > 
> 
> Yes, I had the same doubts.  I believe I posted the question and I got only
> only reply in favor of "cli-foo".
> 
> And we do currently have both mi and gdbtk subdirectories following the
> "keep the prefix" rule.
> 
> I personally had no preferences but I admit this way prevents name clashes,
> specially in these UI directories.  You see, these possible gdb dialects
> like the CLI, the MI, some GUILE interface, our Tcl code etc may tend to
> have things like "parser", "cmds", "cmdloop" etc.
> 
> This would not make sense in other contexts though.

The problem is if you still have to worry about the old DOS 8.3 limit or the
System V.[12] limit of 14 characters total, having a prefix greatly cuts down
on the available names.

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