[Kde-bindings] KDE/kdebindings/csharp

[Richard Dale]

On Tuesday 01 July 2008 13:14:57 Arno Rehn wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 July 2008 14:02:22 Richard Dale wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 July 2008 12:33:09 Arno Rehn wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 01 July 2008 12:23:03 Richard Dale wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 01 July 2008 02:23:34 Arno Rehn wrote:
> > > > > SVN commit 826584 by arnorehn:
> > > > >
> > > > > * Added KMonoPluginFactory. Behaves similar to KRubyPluginFactory:
> > > > > 	* If the keyword is Foo/Bar.dll, a class 'Bar' is searched in the
> > > > > 	  namespace 'Foo'.
> > > > > 	* This class has to have a constructor that takes a QObject (the
> > > > > 	  parent) and a List<QVariant> (the arguments).
> > > > > * Moved the runtime initialization from the static SmokeInvocation
> > > > >   constructor to a new method 'InitRuntime'. This is necessary for
> > > > >   KMonoPluginFactory to work.
> > > >
> > > > Sounds good we should be able to load C# plasma applets now. But I'm
> > > > not sure about the name as it sounds like it should be
> > > > KimonoPluginFactory to me, if that is project it is part of?
> > >
> > > Well, it's also KRubyPluginFactory and not KorundumPluginFactory ;).
> >
> > Yes you're right - I didn't actually invent that name, but I think I
> > would have called it that.
> >
> > > But I'm not sure about the name, either. If we ever port this to
> > > Windows, we'll probably want to use the original .NET API and not Mono.
> > > So maybe KimonoPluginFactory is indeed better.
> >
> > I was thinking it would be kcsharppluginfactory to be the same as
> > krubypluginfactory, but that doesn't really roll off the tongue very
> > easily.
> >
> > One other thing this comment:
> >
> > // a path in the form Foo/Bar.dll results in the class Bar in the
> > namespace Foo
> >
> > Won't we have lower case names just like the ruby ones, eg
> > foo_bar_baz/my_stuff.dll that would be converted to class MyStuff in
> > namespace FooBarBaz?
>
> I thought about that - but in C# it's common to have camel case everywhere,
> so I didn't see a need for that. Even the assemblies are all named like
> that.
I see, but the foo_bar_baz bit where the .dll gets installed, will be a kde 
directory under share/apps and everything there is in lower case.

Can assemblies with the same name be loaded into a single process - they might 
have to all be called main.dll for the plasma script engine api using Plasma 
PackageStructures and packages? They would be under different paths and so 
the namespace would be different. In Ruby you can have any class you like as 
long as it's called 'Main' at the moment.

-- Richard