The meta- prefix for layers is purely customary convention and has been
adopted as best practice. There is no technical reason for it. The only
place where the name of a layer directory is referenced is in
bblayers.conf. Technically, you can give your layer any name you want to as
long as it is com
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, Bill Traynor wrote:
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> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Robert P. J. Day
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> section 5.1.1 of dev manual:
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> "Folders that are layers begin with the string meta."
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> section 5.1.2, immediately afterwards:
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> "Traditionally, prepen
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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> section 5.1.1 of dev manual:
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> "Folders that are layers begin with the string meta."
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> section 5.1.2, immediately afterwards:
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> "Traditionally, prepend the name of the folder with the string meta."
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> those two statements ar
section 5.1.1 of dev manual:
"Folders that are layers begin with the string meta."
section 5.1.2, immediately afterwards:
"Traditionally, prepend the name of the folder with the string meta."
those two statements are somewhat contradictory.
rday
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