On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 01:20 +0100, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote: > 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?
Gnome2::Gst:: makes sense to me. -- Kevin C. Krinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Open Door Software Inc.
