Re: Project name

[Peter Nugent <Peter Nugent Sun COM>]

Just in case this is not a joke, in my opinion the project name should 
relate to what we're doing , not the name of my favourite opera, 
children, football team or the like
Peter




Behdad Esfahbod ha scritto:
> I declare my final suggestion on the name: giovanni.
> Think Don Giovanni, use your imagination ;-).
>
> And lets not add a lib prefix, since we pretty much may want to
> include applications in it (the user configuration applet, etc.)
> We work in the giovanni module.  Inside that, the libraries go
> into libsomething.
>
> I suggest we follow the Glib/Gtk+ naming convention and prefix
> all libraries involved with the same major prefix.  That makes
> users feel they are using one unified library, which is good.
> The prefix then can be gvni for example, gvni_locale_foo,
> gvni_unicode_bar, gvni_cldr_lowlevelfoo, etc...
>
> Vote in.
>
>
> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 14:46 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
>
> > The desire to not use glib is not a joke:
> > ...
> > hence a dependency on a desktop GUI library is not welcome.
>
>
> Just for the record, I should mention that glib is by no means a
> GUI library.  It's a C convenience library, which is much
> appreciated as soon as you write your first application based on
> it.  This happened for me in the past couple of weeks, and I
> cannot imagine myself writing applications from scratch without
> using it.  Just to list a few features that I used from glib:
>
>   - GHashTable: Hash tables.
>   - GSList: Linked lists.
>   - GKeyFile: .ini-like config file handling.
>   - GMainLoop: Main loop with timeouts.
>   - GString: autoresized strings.
>   - GIOChannel: line-oriented file IO with automatic buffer management.
>   - GLog: log level/message handling.
>
> and going to switch from getopt to GOption pretty soon.  These
> makes life with C quite a lot easier.  Remember how much time you
> have to spend on simply formatting and updating the output of
> --help from your program?  Or autoresizing your buffers?  Glib
> provides pretty much what is granted with almost every other
> programming language, with a low overhead.
>
> --behdad
> http://behdad.org/
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