Re: [lwip-users] multiple timers.c in project

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On 18/07/2014 17:32, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> "Sebastian Subik" wrote:
>
> > I hoped that there are better solutions available, but your
> > solution should definitely work. Maybe lwip can consider renaming
> > their timers.c within a future release to avoid such kind of
> > problems...
>
> You could ask the same from FreeRTOS. In fact, <sarcasm> why doesn't
> every project rename every source file to have the project name as a
> prefix? That would be a great idea! </sarcasm>
>
> :-)
>
> Simon

There are a couple of things it would be nice to have the freedom to 
change in FreeRTOS - the file names is top of the list.  List.c in 
particular - would be better as FreeRTOS_List.c.  I really don't think 
it is any hassle to change the name of one file in your project though - 
but do understand it is more problematic when it comes to header file 
name clashes.

When FreeRTOS was created, and probably lwIP too, there was no 
anticipation of its massive uptake, hence it maybe lacked a bit of 
forward thinking about how it would fit into larger projects.  On top of 
that, at the time it was created, the file names all had to fit into 8.3 
format too.

Nearly all such "if only we had done..." wishes have been morphed into 
FreeRTOS over the years, and our newer products (both written already 
and being written) do not have these naming problems.  We can't, 
however, change the name of a file for such a well established product 
as the core FreeRTOS kernel though without causing a major upset - there 
are so many third party tools that use the files, or copy the files 
around, or display the files, etc. and that is not even mentioning the 
thousands and thousands of users who would have to change their project 
files and scripts in order to update their version of FreeRTOS were the 
file names to change (a process that normally just requires a drop in 
replacement followed by a clean build).

Regards,
Richard.

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