Re: Namespacing issues ...
- From: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>
- To: Michael Meeks <michael helixcode com>
- Cc: Darin Adler <darin eazel com>, Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>, George Lebl <jirka 5z com>, Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>, gnome-components-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Namespacing issues ...
- Date: 17 Nov 2000 11:49:23 -0100
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have been recently looking into the issues of namespacing.
> Clearly it is not really possible for Gnome to play a serious part in
> the wider OMG / CORBA community, particulary in partnership with large
> companies, without getting a sensible set of Namespacing guidelines.
>
> Now; in order to save Gnome people as much pain as possible,
> Miguel and I have agreed on the following strategy:
>
> We register two toplevel domains with the OMG ( if at all
> possible ) NB. Toplevel domains are a valuable commodity. These are:
>
> GNOME/ and
> Bonobo/
>
> Bonobo/ is reserved for the component model and various
> standard Gnome component services. Everything else goes in GNOME/
>
> Hence we have:
>
> GNOME/
> Evolution/
> Nautilus/
> Eog/
> GnomeDB/
> GDA/
>
> or whatever.
>
> Whilst a lot of IDL already obeys this conventions; there
> are unfortunately a number of things that will need changing, the
> sooner the better really. A pernicious drop off eg. is in gnome-core
> the help_browser interface seems to have been added just outside the
> GNOME module that the rest of the interfaces are ( correctly ) in.
>
> Similarly, it would be good to move gnome-lib's desktop
> interfaces into GNOME/Desktop.
>
> So; Please can people make a start at sorting these problems;
> mostly they can be done by simple perl scripts of the form:
>
yes, no problem for GNOME-DB. But I am worried about GDA, which is the
data access framework for gnome-db, and which is now 100% GNOME-independent.
Does it make sense to have it as part of the GNOME namespace?
cheers
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