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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Platform issues in KDE svn
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-09-08 22:20:34
Message-ID: 200809090020.35027.aacid () kde ! org
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A Dilluns 08 Setembre 2008, Patrick Spendrin va escriure:
> Hi to all the developers,
>
> taking one recent bug report as a base, I wanted to write down all the
> known issues that hinder KDE's platform efforts. Since I represent the
> windows fraction I will start with the windows problems, maybe the other
> platforms might join.
>
> 1) svn problems:
> - file names should not contain the characters ':' and '?' (colon and
> question mark). Those are valid on Unix but not on windows. There are
> several occurrences in KDE's svn.
> - files with names which only differ by case: kate.txt and KATE.TXT in
> one directory shouldn't be allowed (explanation: MS Windows uses
> internally a case insensitive filename as a key for the files).

We probably can have a pre-commit hook for that, right?

Albert

>
> 2) please think when you rename a library:
> Each library has a header file called libraryname_export.h or similar.
> You don't need to rename the file if you don't want to but:
>
> this file contains a line
> #ifdef MAKE_LIBRARYNAME_LIB
> ....
> please adjust the library name there too.
>
> regards,
> Patrick
> (irc nick: SaroEngels)


 
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