The goodness of goodness

[Bernd Gehrmann]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:16:59PM +0200, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> > > I would tend to call a KDevelop java support class 'Java<rest of classname>'
> > > even if I could give it the same name as an existing C++ support class via
> > > namespaces. Is it a good idea for each plugin to declare its own namespace?  I
> > 
> > Hmm, I don't even know. In principle parts only need to export a
> > single symbol, namely the init_foo which returns a factory. So
> > there would be no problem. OTOH, it doesn't look like kde doesn't
> > use ld's feature to restrict exporting symbol tables...
> 
> I think it's a good idea to use namespaces for plugins.
> 
> We used this ld feature for exporting init_* only 
> ('-export-symbols-regex 'init_.*'"' was part of KDE_PLUGIN), but IIRC it turned
> out that it only works for linux (which makes it something we can't rely on,
> as then you just 'move' the crashes to other platforms without eliminating
> their cause ;-)

Aha, good to know :-) Wouldn't it make sense - even it's only for
linux - not to export internal classes in kdelibs? AFAIK this will
be done in gtk 2.0, and I would expect the effect to be even
greater for C++, since in C 'static' functions aren't exported anyway,
in contrast to 'private' methods in C++.

Bernd.


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