Re: RFC: renaming libgobject

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:

> We've been discussing renaming libgobject to something else
> for a while. For a couple of reasons:
> 
>  - It may be confusing to have both the library and the object
>    type named GObject.
> 
>  - We've discussed moving the mainloop into gobject so it
>    can use GClosure for callback, libgobject might be a 
>    confusing name then.
> 
>  - People have been including gobject/gobject.h instead of
>    glib-object.h

well, the names suggested so far are much worse and I don't think 
the points you mentioned above justify a name change. People will
always make mistakes or become confused. This can be avoided by
providing good documentation, not by choosing a different name.


Salut, Sven