Renaming DMD File Extensions from C to C++

deadalnix via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 4 19:27:12 PST 2015


On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 22:41:29 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> 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.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4382


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