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Re: Foo::Bar::Libfoobar vs. Libfoobar?

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Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> writes:
> 	I'm curious, what's the current preferred naming scheme for Perl
> 	bindings to C libraries?  Given such modules as GD or
> 	Image::Magick, I'd assume that the bindings for Libfoobar are
> 	ought to live in a module named Libfoobar.
>
> 	Somehow, however, I'd find it tempting to use a longer, yet more
> 	descriptive, Foo::Bar::Libfoobar; especially if there's a
> 	related Foo::Bar module already on CPAN, and that Foo::Bar would
> 	be the "proper" name for Libfoobar, should it be (re)implemented
> 	as a native Perl library.
>
> 	Perhaps there's anything else to consider?

First, I would drop the lib-prefix: If it is a standalone Perl module,
'we' already know that it is a library and putting lib in front of the
name is just keeping a convention of so dubious value alive that the
linker has actually contained code to work around it 'for ages'
(intepreting an argument a la  -lbarfoo as request to link with a file
named libbarfoo). For the remaining part "it depends": Is 'foobar' an
'unstructured' term in its own right or is 'foo' something which
denotes a class of similar things with bar being a specimen belonging
to it? For the former case, it should be Foobar, integrated in a
suitable 'abstract top-level namespace' ie, Metasyntatic::Foobar, in
the latter case, it should become Foo::Bar.

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Foo::Bar::Libfoobar vs. Libfoobar? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-07-21 22:41 +0000
  Re: Foo::Bar::Libfoobar vs. Libfoobar? George Mpouras <nospam.gravitalsun.noadsplease@hotmail.noads.com> - 2013-07-22 09:33 +0300
  Re: Foo::Bar::Libfoobar vs. Libfoobar? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-22 14:18 +0100
    Re: Foo::Bar::Libfoobar vs. Libfoobar? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-07-22 13:49 +0000

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