[Kde-java] Re: GCJ (Re: Build system for KDE4)

[David Goodenough]

On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:16, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> Thomas Zander said:
> > Remembering a conversation on kdecore-devel about namespaces; the
> > consensus was that kdelibs was not going to be adding namespaces, meaning
> > most classes will be namespace-less.
> > I'm inclined to use the directories they are in; so we have a
> > kde.kparts and a kde.kdeui kde.kdecore
> > where the last may be renamed to
> > kde.ui and kde.core
>
> That's only true for the 'old' parts of kdelibs like kdeui and kdecore.
> KParts is already namespaced, KIO was 50/50 and will become fully
> namespaced in KDE 4. I'm not sure for new code whether it HAS to be
> namespaced or if there's just a strong preference for namespaces. Either
> way, assuming kdelibs to be non-namespaced is wrong.
So we use the namespace if it is specified, and directory if the namespace
is not available, and if all else fails we have a default which can either be
static or derived from some rule such as the what-is-the-first-letter rule.

David