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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdelibs/kidl
From:       weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date:       1999-10-20 11:57:17
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Hi,

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, David Faure wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 06:18:55PM +0200, CVS by torben wrote:
> > 
> > kdelibs/kidl scanner.cc,1.1,1.2 scanner.ll,1.1,1.2 yacc.cc,1.1,1.2 yacc.cc.h,1.1,1.2 yacc.yy,1.1,1.2
> > Author: torben
> > CVSROOT: /home/kde
> > Tue Oct 19 18:18:55 MET DST 1999
> > Update of /home/kde/kdelibs/kidl
> > In directory zeus:/tmp/cvs-serv8138
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> > 	scanner.cc scanner.ll yacc.cc yacc.cc.h yacc.yy 
> > Log Message:
> > Useable version
> 
> Can please rename this to dcopxml, and kidl2cpp to dcopxml2cpp ?
> 
> It's what it is, right ? Nothing to do with the IDL language ?
> Showing the world that we hacked not only one idl compiler but two
> is giving people sticks to beat us with (hmm that's a French saying I'm afraid).
> 
> And you save half of the docu you need to write, because the name would be
> a lot more self-explaining. :)

Changing the name is ok for me. But IDL is not the name of certain
OMG language. It is the name of a concept, the name for a class of
languages. The OMG one is the most famous one. But

idl != OMG idl langauge.

Bye
Torben

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