On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Evan Nemerson <[email protected]> wrote:
> With the improvements made to GPtrArray in GLib 2.22 (reference counting
> and the ability to specify a free function), it would be very useful to
> have a generic implementation available from Vala.
>
> In order to preserve backwards compatibility, we would like to keep
> GLib.PtrArray as it is and implement a generic version with a different
> name in Vala. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to decide on a name we
> like. Right now it seems like the two best choices are:
>
>      * GLib.GenericArray
>        Not the shortest name, but fairly descriptive of what it does.
>      * GLib.ArrayList
>        Short and consistent with the gee naming scheme. The problem is
>        projects using Gee would always have to type Gee.ArrayList or
>        GLib.ArrayList to disambiguate their choice.
>
> Does anyone have any good ideas? Or a preference between these two?

Do Gee.ArrayList and GLib.ArrayList work different? If so I would
prefer the first choice.
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