Re: Standalone Pango, take two

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:

> From: Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>
> Subject: Re: Standalone Pango, take two
> To: gtk-perl-list gnome org
> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 9:23 AM
> Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> > I think the safest approach is to export/map
> _nothing_.
> > 
> > If one needs method/data, he/she should explicitly
> prefix it with
> > package name.
> 
> I think you're confusing something here.  We are not
> talking about exporting symbols into the user's
> namespace.  Gtk2 never did that (if not asked for it), Pango
> will not do it, and the compatibility layer will not do it
> either.  We are talking about creating aliases in
> Gtk2::Pango for the symbols in Pango.
> 
> -Torsten

Then what is export exactly ?

Isn't it populating one package namespace with symbols from another package ?

Thanks,
  Sergei.