Subject: Re: [gdome] gdome2
From: Mathieu Lacage (lacage@email.enst.fr)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 09:10:31 EST
Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org> writes:
>
> Would it be a one and forever line change i would not mind.
> If it is N changes for every files for every major release then
> this sucks and I'm not gonna accept this.
>
> Suppose that with gnome 2.0 all apps have to change
>
> #include <gnome/xxx.h>
> to
> #include <gnome2/xxx.h>
>
> then I'm pretty sure I would not be the only one to complain :-)
that would be of course completely stupid.
>
> The "gnome-xml" isn't a good prefix, libxml would.
yes, it would.
> Should it be libxml or libxml2 ?
libxml, definitely, just for the reason you gave above.
> would this have to be incremented to libxml3 in one year (and so on ...) ?
of course not.
This is just to avoid the namespace collision.
And the code is nicer when you write:
#include <libxml/tree.h>
than
#include <tree.h> /* libxml */
>
> That's what I'm currently struggling with and in the absence of a good
> answer, the status quo will be maintained.
>
> This is now the major issue left w.r.t. libxml-2.0.0 final release.
good.
Are my answers enough ?
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