Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:20:19PM -0500, Kevin C. Krinke wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 01:20 +0100, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote: Aloha, GStreamer is a powerful and pretty popular media framework. GNOME already uses it extensively, and KDE just started to. It's based on GLib and uses its

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread David Landgren
Mark Stosberg wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:20:19PM -0500, Kevin C. Krinke wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 01:20 +0100, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote: Aloha, GStreamer is a powerful and pretty popular media framework. GNOME already uses it extensively, and KDE just started to. It's based on GLib and

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Torsten Schoenfeld
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 14:08 +0100, David Landgren wrote: Another alternative is to let the user choose. Take a look at Yves' Data::Dumper::Streamer module. During the installation, the user has a choice of additionally installing it in the DDS namespace (this does not occur by default).

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Torsten Schoenfeld
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 00:26 -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote: Multimedia::GStreamer What about just using Media::GStreamer and aliasing it to Gst? That would introduce a new top-level namespace, but I think it makes sense to have it. I don't see any advantage of using Gst over GStreamer as a name,

RE: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Orton, Yves
Title: RE: Name for GStreamer bindings On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 14:08 +0100, David Landgren wrote: Another alternative is to let the user choose. Take a look at Yves' Data::Dumper::Streamer module. During the installation, the user has a choice of additionally installing it in the DDS

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Smylers
Torsten Schoenfeld writes: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 00:26 -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote: I don't see any advantage of using Gst over GStreamer as a name, they both describe the same thing and GStreamer is a tad more helpfull (to google a description). It's all about the length. It always

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Torsten Schoenfeld
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 18:25 +, Smylers wrote: If all modules have really short names then nobody knows when anybody else's modules are for, which rather defeats the purpose of Cpan. Cpan is a global namespace, and as such names have to be chosen carefully to be as meaningful as possible

RE: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Orton, Yves
Title: RE: Name for GStreamer bindings If all modules have really short names then nobody knows when anybody else's modules are for, which rather defeats the purpose of Cpan. Cpan is a global namespace, and as such names have to be chosen carefully to be as meaningful as

Re: CPAN cruft cleanup?

2005-02-23 Thread Johan Vromans
Linda W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But from what I hear, I'm on my own -- Not completely. The cpancd[1] package has the functionality in it to find out the latest version of a series of versions. Although the package is obsolete (CPAN won't fit on a CD anymore), this function could be