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authorMike Kaganski <mike.kaganski@collabora.com>2017-10-27 15:39:12 +0300
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See commits acb3ed0615a1b4e31257fa1014e9e2f2188c602c and 189abcf0db61c41a565bd355294bf6e712fc3e5a, and mail thread <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2017-October/078601.html> Change-Id: I2eea0b0a13bfe7f2919f36c94e76796b6a8cf122 Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/43945 Reviewed-by: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com> Tested-by: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>
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@@ -98,6 +98,16 @@ canvas/ | new (UNO) canvas rendering model with various backends
cppcanvas/ | C++ helper classes for using the UNO canvas
drawinglayer/ | View code to render drawable objects and break them down into primitives we can render more easily.
+## Rules for #include directives (C/C++)
+
+Use the `"..."` form if and only if the included file is found next to the
+including file. Otherwise, use the `<...>` form. (For further details, see the
+mail [Re: C[++]: Normalizing include syntax ("" vs
+<>)](https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2017-November/078778.html).)
+
+The UNO API include files should consistently use double quotes, for the
+benefit of external users of this API.
+
## Finding out more