Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> The Makefile supports a target called 'hdr-check', which checks if >> individual header files can be independently compiled. Let's port this >> functionality to meson, our new build system too. > > Good goal. > >> Let's avoid the abbreviation and name the target 'headers-check', which >> is easier to read. > > This is a bit dubious. Are developers supposed to keep track of > correspondence between the long establish name and the new name this > patch just came up with? For how long? > Fair enough. > If we make it one of our goals to name the build target in > pronounceable ways, that is perfectly fine, and it would be a good > task to allow "make headers-check" be a synonym for "make hdr-check" > (and do the same on the meson side), and deprecate hdr-check in a > cycle or two (this is not end-user facing, so the transition period > can legitimately be much shorter than usual. > > But we still need to have some transition period to help those who > build from the source adjust their set-ups that have called "make > hdr-check" for a long time. Well put. My intention was that anyone using meson will anyways have to change from `make <target>` to `meson compile <target>`. So they wouldn't mind <target> changing too. But it would be nicer to keep both the old target and the new replacement and eventually remove the old target. Will do that and send in a new version.
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