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Ticket #20053 (new defect)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

Document the port naming convention of replacing ++ with xx

Reported by: blb@… Owned by: markd@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: guide Version: 1.8.0
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description

Several ports whose "true" name have ++ in their names (libsigc++, libxml++, mysql++, and others) have the plus signs replaced with the letter x (libsigcxx2, libxmlxx, mysqlxx). This is the convention we've picked (and is also used in other project names directly like libpqxx), but we have no current documentation for it in the guide. This should be added someplace.

Change History

Changed 3 years ago by jmr@…

The motivation being of course that the + could be (and probably is) misinterpreted as the start of a variant.

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