[Python-Dev] .clinic.c vs .c.clinic

[Georg Brandl]

Am 19.01.2014 11:19, schrieb Larry Hastings:
> On 01/18/2014 10:36 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> On 19 January 2014 10:44, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:
>>> Visual Studio will try to compile them if they end with .c, though this can
>>> be disabled on a per-file basis in the project file. Files ending in .h
>>> won't be compiled, though changes should be detected and cause the .c files
>>> that include them to be recompiled.
>> That sounds like a rather good argument for .clinic.h over .clinic.c :)
>>
>> My assessment of the thread is that .clinic.h will give us the best
>> overall tool compatibility.
> 
> Yeah, I'm tipping pretty far towards "foo.c" -> "foo.clinic.h".
> 
> But there's one onion in the ointment: what should "foo.h" generate?  The day
> may yet arrive when we have Argument Clinic code in foo.{ch}.
> 
> Not kidding, my best idea so far is "foo.clinic.h.h",

Why not always put clinic into its own directory?

Modules/mathmodule.c -> Modules/clinic/mathmodule.c.h
Modules/mathmodule.h -> Modules/clinic/mathmodule.h.h

At least that is consistent, allows easy exclusion in tools, and gets rid
of the additional "clinic" in the filename.

Georg