From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59219) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZenDA-0004an-0s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:48:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZenD6-00064D-Jw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:48:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZenD6-000639-Fo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:48:00 -0400 Received: from int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.27]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC92C2F9119 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:47:57 +0000 (UTC) References: <1443002356-22481-1-git-send-email-berrange@redhat.com> <5602C95A.1060705@redhat.com> <5602CAC0.20709@redhat.com> From: Eric Blake Message-ID: <5602D7B4.5060504@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:47:48 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5602CAC0.20709@redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q99EeK1TkIgcPuimtqB9ARw8A44Xl8R8T" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: describe the QEMU build system structure / design List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: John Snow , Laszlo Ersek , "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Paolo Bonzini This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --Q99EeK1TkIgcPuimtqB9ARw8A44Xl8R8T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 rul= es >> >> This was >> >> "a .exe suffix" >> >> before, and Jon commented that you probably pronounced it as "a dot-ex= e >> suffix". >> >> Now you've removed the dot, but haven't changed "a" into "an". :) >> >=20 > 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. >=20 > "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) --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --Q99EeK1TkIgcPuimtqB9ARw8A44Xl8R8T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWAte0AAoJEKeha0olJ0NqKEgH/A01R+1YlOUeHZ+O5ovy2mCl WdZhjoZfr2wLB6Ydi/pFihSbNhJ3kvnwOOMsYhhMDDjegE8nQxKqrJ2XSXa2jiUA df+E9t5a1yDBz4KqJ7XM43D5tLcECkTCmrslRMEh/leryrvagF/26rkKOY9q4yKo 7FmBHVRZJkc04XHcyBH8LlcV/ayCw0TMP1DZUi4CeZASf1Sfs47BYWysfRVN2ygb DnPnRWnYOoG4y7grIZV5E5M5hC3KkGod0Zjcpz3IrvMXq0WkGoflE5yPlc41P9A6 Dk0fQhnfeDjLCNsCEQZ0pgj2/3NWlCybJmvXvrtxc81Tn3tkh2PP6+NfDre6Bd4= =2KG4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q99EeK1TkIgcPuimtqB9ARw8A44Xl8R8T--