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 object oriented C API style. The objects have names like GstQueue or GstElement.
For similar objects like GtkWindow or GnomeIconList in other libraries, us Gtk2-Perl people tend to directly map them to namespaces: Gtk2::Window and Gnome2::IconList. For smaller libraries like libwnck or librsvg, on the other hand, we try not to pollute the top-level namespace: Gnome2::Wnck::Screen, Gnome2::Rsvg::Handle, etc. For GStreamer, I would tend towards using Gst as a namespace. It matches the C objects' names. It's short to type, which is not unimportant since it's not like the typical Perl OO module where the full package name only appears once when using the constructor -- the GStreamer bindings contain a lot of objects with their own constructors, many of which almost all programs will use. It's not directly GNOME-related. And lastly, Gst has a precedent: the Python bindings also use this namespace. On the con side, there's of course the introduction of a new top-level namespace. One that is an abbreviation and not easily recognizable. So, if you were to write Perl bindings for GStreamer, what namespace would you use? -- Thanks, -Torsten
