[gnet-devel] Include file 'namespace'

[Matt Bucknall <matt mattbucknall com>]

Hi,

I'm contemplating using GNet on a fairly major project at work, however 
I am a little concerned regarding how GNet's include files are named and 
organized.

When installed, all include files (assuming version 2.0) are installed 
at $(prefix)/gnet-2.0. Apart from gnet.h, none of the include files use 
any sort of naming convention to disambiguate them from unrelated 
include files which may be in the compiler's include path (and thus 
could cause conflicts).

Would it not be wise to either take the approach Glib takes where all 
include files except the main one (glib.h) are included in a 
sub-directory (e.g. glib/gtypes.h) or at least prefix all the include 
files with gnet-* or something?

I appreciate that changing the organization of include files is going to 
break the API, but it would not be difficult to deprecate the current 
scheme and come up with a newer, safer scheme that can co-exist with the 
original for a while.

Any thoughts/comments?

Matt.