Someone mentioned recently that we should name all the xml build system files makefile.rbuild, or something to that effect.
I didn't have an opinion at the time, but I have recently developed a very strong one...
If all the build system's files are named the same, and if you have 3 of them open in notepad, you can't tell which is which from the window's title. This is IMNSHO a bad thing.
Furthermore, in order to be able to invoke make from any directory, instead of just the top-level one, I need to put a "makefile" ( I'm forced to have same name here ) in each directory that punts to the top-level one. Therefore, some of the bootstrap makefiles will need to be renamed out of the way.
My plan is to name the bootstrap makefiles thus:
tools/tools.mak tools/unicode/unicode.mak ...you get the idea...
If we want to rename all the xml files to *.rbuild, that's fine, but I think making them all "makefile.rbuild" is baaaaad.
Peace
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Royce Mitchell III