Hi, all,
The current list of "upvoted" names (no, Brad, urvogel's not one of them ;)
for the on-going/up-coming library API includes (in my personal order of
preference, but i'm not emotionally attached to these):
- libfossil-scm and fossil(3)
- libfossil
- liblissof (fossil, backwards, because that's what this approach to Fossil
is)
i think that was about it? i _really_ liked the idea of the name (i've
forgotten) which was a reference to a "famously fake fossil," but i have
been warned by one wiser than myself to avoid attempts at humorous names
(his example being "libiberty") and i tend to agree with him that such
attempts eventually backfire in some way, shape, or form. (Side-note for
history buffs: go look up the history of the mail reader "Alpine"'s name,
going all the way back to the first mail program ("mail").)
i'm still completely open for names but i keep finding myself writing
"libfossil" and "fossil(3)" everywhere (i'm a doc fanatic), and would like
to settle on one or the other relatively soon.
Likewise, but of interest only to C coders, the main headers currently look
like:
#include <fossil-scm/fossil.h> // public API
#include <fossil-scm/fsl_internal.h> // internal/pseudo-private API, will
rename to fossil-internal.h eventually, for consistency
If you C programmers feel strongly for some other convention, please speak
up. You can peak at the code-related conventions here:
http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/f2/doxygen/
(see the bottom half of that first page)
and i am not emotionally attached to many of those, so feel free to
suggest, e.g. better API name prefixes. The vast majority of things like
that are trivial to refactor with a few lines of perl or sed (my main
argument for keeping the repo db outside of the checkout dir, btw ;).
Your opinions on the topic are much appreciated!
--
----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
http://gplus.to/sgbeal
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