Thanks, Chris, yes it is actually the other way around. Also, your point about "Glib::Gio" seems pretty valid to me, but I guess it would be too much to ask for right now. (Does the existence of ::Gio still stem from the time when it was separate from Glib?)
Perhaps this could be an issue for 3.0 (to move ::Gio into Glib::)? On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Chris Vine <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:53:26 +0100 > Milosz Derezynski <[email protected]> wrote: > > The "namespacing" in the C layer is very confusing. First, GDBus is > > part of GIO, but types are named GDBus*, not GioDBus*. > > > > Then there are the "methods", which are named g_dbus_*, which would > > much rather suggest being a part of Glib itself, rather than GIO, but > > so is everything else in GIO (GFile*, g_file_*). > [snip] > > That is how glib does it, rather than an inconsistency. The glib > tarball comes with a number of other modules apart from gio, such as > gobject, gthread, gmodule, all with their own pkg-config *.pc set-up > files and (apart from gmodule) with their own separate documentation, > which also all use the G and g_ namespace prefixes. > > It is glibmm which has an inconsistent usage, by separating off only > gio into a separate namespace (which incidentally is ::Gio, not > Glib::Gio), which may be the source of what you find confusing. There > seems no particular reason why there should not be GThread, GObject and > GModule namespaces in glibmm: the defining feature of course is that gio > contains vastly more code than would these others namespaces. > > However modularising glibmm is in my view a good thing, so Gio::DBus > sounds fine to me. But why restrict this to just one subset of gio, > namely gdbus? As I say, there is a great deal more namespace modularity > which could sensibly be implemented in glib. > > Chris > > > > -- Please note that according to the German law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange with me is retained for a period of six months. [Bitte beachten Sie, dass dem Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung zufolge jeder elektronische Kontakt mit mir sechs Monate lang gespeichert wird.]
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