Re: CVS reorg

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:

> Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes:
> 
> > can one of you in the CVS repo please do the following:
> > 
> > copy glib/gobject/gbsearcharray.[hc] to glib/gbsearcharray.[hc] 
> > copy glib/gobject recursively to glib/gruntime
> > copy glib/gmain.[hc] to glib/gruntime/glib/gmain.[hc]
> > 
> > i'll handle include files/build setup stuff after that.
> 
> Before we go ahead and do this, let me ask once more, do
> we really want to go with the s/gobject/gruntime/ change?

Eeeek, NOOOOOOOOOOOO !

Why the hell do you guys want to rename GObject to something else ?

>  - We'll confuse people; think how long people kept on
>    talking about GTK+-1.4. People recognize gobject
>    and know what it is at this point.
> 
>  - gruntime is an ugly name.

So can someone please enlighten me here, do you just want to rename the
directory/library `gobject' to something else or do you also want to
rename the GObject type and the g_object_* () function names ?

>  - Once we start moving stuff into gruntime like the main
>    loop, its not really clear where the boundary is,
>    and possibly a separate library for gobject just
>    doesn't make sense.
> 
>    What's is the precise definition of what belongs in
>    one library and what belongs in the other?

Guys, please don't start doing the same kind of "mess" we had in GTK+ 1.x
where there was no clear boundary between the object model and the widget
set.

We're currently in a situation where GObject as an object system may become
useful for non-GNOME and even non-Gtk projects; and IMHO this will loose a
lot of its value if we move stuff like the main loop into gobject.

-- 
Martin Baulig
martin gnome org (private)
baulig suse de (work)