Re: prefix / Re: Masterplan

[Braden McDaniel]

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:53, Guido Draheim wrote:
> Peter Simons schrieb:
> > Guido Draheim writes:
> > 
> >         AX_ENABLE_DYNAMIC_LINKING
> >         AX_HAVE_OPENGL
> > 
> >     There is no need to have another prefix following the "AX", as in
> > 
> >         AX_<author-initials>_HAVE_OPENGL
> 
> aaahm, not quite - remember we might need to change "names" of
> macros quite heavily even when for the same target topic. Therefore,
> we need a scheme to allow for a "family" of macros that target
> the same problem area. _How_ that extra sibling attribution is
> done, well, there are numerous ways, and I would not exclude
> author-intials (or project intials) in either the middle or
> appended.

I disagree:

     1. I don't think the archive should have macros that do exactly the
        same thing.
     2. Macros that do different things should have names that differ by
        more than an arbitrary disambiguation prefix.

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