Re: A question about naming components.

[Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>]

Thanks for the clarification Michael. Will do.

Cheers

Martin

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 13:29, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > 	Pretty soon we'll release an AbiWord 1.0.2 rpm which supports the
> > interfaces: bonobo
> > control/embeddable/zoomable/printable/property
> > bag/persist/persist stream/ persist file. 
> 
> 	Great :-) that's really good.
> 
> > It will be immediately embeddable in evolution and gnumeric. However I
> > have a question about naming the component. We've named our component
> >
> >   <oaf_server
> > 	      iid="OAFIID:GNOME_AbiWord_Control"
> > 	      type="factory"
> > 	      location="OAFIID:GNOME_AbiWord_ControlFactory">
> 
> 	I'll reserve the GNOME_AbiWord namespace against your name in
> libbonobo/doc/NAMESPACE. If you read the bonobo FAQ it talks about this
> issue ( bonobo/doc/FAQ ).
> 
> > However I noticed that many other components have long, randomly
> > generated text strings after their names. What is the purpose of
> > those?
> 
> 	They were intended to garentee uniqueness, but we went with a
> structured namespace instead in the end.
> 
> >  Should we do the same? If we release 1.0.3 with a different string 
> > of random characters will it still work with evolution/gnumeric?
> 
> 	Just don't go there :-) 
> 
> > More-over if a random hacker wants to use the AbiWord component in her
> > application will she have to get the long random string of characters
> > exactly correct when asking for the AbiWord control?
> 
> 	Yes - that's the problem.
> 
> 	I would also encourage you to use the GNOME_AbiWord namespace for your
> .oaf filename, and also any .xml User interface description files for
> menu merging etc. as this garentees a lack of conflicts.
> 
> 	HTH,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
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