On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Lee Brown wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 07 Nov 2000, Christoph Egger wrote:
> >
> > > How often do you change the name of your lib again? You renamed it twice
> > > from libgel over libfnt to libft...
> >
> > Well. I know. mea culpa. This is it though. I mean it. I've gradually
> > limited the scope of the library and changed the name to reflect that. Kind of
> > like Boston Chicken to Boston Market but opposite. I won't change the name
> > again even if it turns into a library that does accounting for dairy farmers.
>
> ok, before you get really serious about this name: please consider that 'ft', even
> if it is restricted to mean 'font', is far too generic for your thing. There might
> be other font libraries out there. Since you are so keen on writing a font library
> specific to GGI, please consider calling it that way.
>
> There is an issue called 'namespace pollution'.
I agree with you. I would suggest to call it libgfnt or libgft (gft for general
font).
Every library we have in the snapshot starts with libg* (except libwmh,
libxmi), where the "g" stands for general (correct me, if I'm wrong or missing
something).
Christoph Egger
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