Re: [gdome] gdome2

[Mathieu Lacage <lacage email enst fr>]

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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