[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8754) effects patch

["Per Inge Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8754 >

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> >>What's the difference betweenbuilding_replaced and
> >>improvement_redundant? Why are some functions called "building" when
> >>all the original functions (and the file name) call it an "improvement"?
> >
> > You are the one who told me you prefered building over improvement. :-)
>
> I do. But unforunately "improvement" is we firmly entrenched standard.
> And it's more important that we have a single standard than that the
> name be good. No patch should introduce a new naming convention without
> doing so globally.

It is hardly a standard. The use of improvement vs building is at a 3:1
ratio, or so, I gather from a quick grep through the headers.

  - Per