[cmake-developers] C# support?

[David Cole]

Yes, please do spell it out as CSharp. CS could mean about a billion things...

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Stuermer, Michael  SP/HZA-ZSEP
<michael.stuermer at schaeffler.com> wrote:
> Sounds reasonable,
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> my choice was motivated by the file extension of the C# source files (.cs)
> and that it is shorter. But as Fortran seems to use the longer “Fortran”
> description it might be a good idea to switch to “CSharp” as well …
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> Michael
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> From: Petr Kmoch [mailto:petr.kmoch at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 10:18 AM
> To: Stuermer, Michael SP/HZA-ZSEP
> Cc: cmake-developers at cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] C# support?
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> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Stuermer, Michael SP/HZA-ZSEP
> <michael.stuermer at schaeffler.com> wrote:
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> About the language:
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> Would it be ok to name the language in CMake "CS" instead of "CSharp"? I did
> everything as "CS" so far...
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> If I may provide an outsider's comment on this point, I would suggest
> against this. For me, "CS" does not intuitively associate with C# - I
> wouldn't know it means C# unless I read it somewhere stated explicitly. "C",
> "CXX", "Fortran" are all obvious to me, "CS" is not.
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> Then again, I have never used C#, so it might just be general unfamiliarity
> on my part, in which case feel free to ignore this post.
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> Petr
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