Re: Perl bindings for libchamplain

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote:
> I have other questions regarding the name of the Perl bindings. The C
> library is based on Clutter and provides an optional Gtk widget. I've
> still haven't selected a final name for the Perl modules. I'm thinking
> of naming the Gtk2 widget "Gtk2::Champlain::ViewEmbed" but what about
> the Clutter actors? Should I call them "Champlain::"? By the way this
> is exactly what the python and C# bindings did.

Yeah, other bindings usually don't care about namespace polution and just put 
everything into the top level.

There seems to be a well-populated Geo:: namespace on CPAN -- maybe that would 
be an option?

The module-authors perl org mailing list is often used for requests for name 
suggestions, with good results.

> I'm also thinking of providing a single Perl package that will
> generate both bindings (Gtk2::Champlain::ViewEmbed will be an optional
> build detected at install time).

Separating the clutter and gtk+ parts of the bindings would appear to only make 
sense if one of them could be usefully used independently of the other.  If 
that's not the case, I think distributing both parts together and putting them 
under the same top-level namespace would be less confusing.