imacarthur wrote:

> 
> On 4 Nov 2008, at 18:09, Maik Beckmann wrote:
> 
>> The
>>  Fl -> FL
>>  *.h -> *.H
>> stuff looks pretty scary to me.  I've never encountered such stuff
>> before.
>> Why do we do it?
> 
> History. Backwards compatibility.
> In particular, it often allows (badly written) code ported from win32
> or OSX systems onto *nix systems to compile without choking, as many
> programmers on those systems are so used to having a case-insensitive
> file system that they are "haphazard" with the case of their include
> paths...

So, which one should be used: The symbolic link (Fl/*.h) or the hard link
(FL/*.H)?

I have been using:

#include <FL/Fl_Button.H>

Now I am wondering if I should be using the symbolic links instead?


-- 
Alvin
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