Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: describe the QEMU build system structure / design

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 09/23/2015 09:52 AM, John Snow wrote:

>>> +Windows platform portability
>>> +----------------------------
>>> +
>>> +On Windows all binaries have a 'exe' suffix, so all the Makefile rules
>>
>> This was
>>
>>   "a .exe suffix"
>>
>> before, and Jon commented that you probably pronounced it as "a dot-exe
>> suffix".
>>
>> Now you've removed the dot, but haven't changed "a" into "an". :)
>>
> 
> Ah, I didn't realize he changed this -- I wasn't actually recommending
> that you change it, it was supposed to just be an observation.
> 
> "a .exe" or "an exe" are both correct in my mind and you can use
> whichever you find reads easiest.

Actually, the full suffix is the four bytes '.exe', when compared to the
non-windows binaries.  So I'd rather see:

On Windows, all binaries have the suffix ".exe", so all Makefile...

(note how I cleverly avoided the need for an indefinite article)

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