Re: Namespace on gnome-menus library

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 14:45 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 15:49 +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We should probably namespace gnome-menus. You currently include 
> > <menu-tree.h> and the functions are menu_tree_* for example. Would be 
> > better to have the functions namespaced so that it's easier to see where 
> > they come from.
> > 
> > #include <gnome-menus/menu-tree.h>
> > 
> > gnome_menu_tree_*
> 
> 	Yeah, maybe ... but that's more typing :-)
> 
> 	Seriously, its a library which only will be used in the core desktop -
> gnome-panel, control-center, bug-buddy currently - so I'm not worried
> enough about namespace clashes to change it, really.

Until someone links in another library that uses similar generic symbol
names... namespacing is useful for a lot more things than API
identification.  Libraries that don't namespace symbols cause way too
many problems for users.

> 
> Cheers,
> Mark.
> 
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