Renaming DMD File Extensions from C to C++

deadalnix via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 4 14:41:27 PST 2015


On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 22:09:04 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 21:45:02 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 21:51:42 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>>> Can we please change the file extensions in DMD from .c to 
>>> .cpp for C++ sources?
>>
>> If I make a PR to make these file cpp, what are the chances 
>> for it to be accepted ? git is capable of tracking renaming, 
>> so it should create any conflict.
>
> I managed to get things working in my latest commit in PR I 
> mentioned above so its not critical for Eclipse integration to 
> work.

I still think this is something that needs fixing. The cost used 
to be prohibitive, but now we migrated to git, the cost is very 
low, and that improve the situation for contributors.

Doing it.


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