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diff --git a/doc/history.rst b/doc/history.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..674b39f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/history.rst @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +History +======= + +The origins of libHX trace back, even crossing a language boundary, to when the +author started on using Perl in 1999. Some tasks were just too damn useful to +be open-coded every time. Two such examples are what is these days known as +``HX_basename`` and ``HX_mkdir``. The name does not relate to anyone's +initials; it is a result of a truncation of the author's nick used years ago. + +Around the beginning of 2003, the author also started on the C programming +language and soon the small library was converted from Perl to C. The libHX +library as of today is the result of working with C ever since, and naturally +grew from there to support whatever the author was in need of. + +The “correct” name for libHX is with an uppercase “H” and uppercase “X”, and +the same is used for filenames, such as “libHX.so”[#lowercase] + +.. [#lowercase] Software projects may choose to entirely lowercase the project + name for use in filenames, such as the Linux kernel which is + released as ``linux-${version}.tar.bz2``, or the project may + choose to keep the name for filenames, like Mesa and SDL do. + libHX is of the latter. |