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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Naming kidl (was Re: kdelibs/kidl)
From:       weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date:       1999-10-21 13:19:10
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Hi,

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, David Faure wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:57:17PM +0200, weis wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> Ah...
> Is probably right technically, but still looks bad for mindshare I think.
> What do others think ?
> 
> Torben, is dcopxml an accurate naming for what it does ?

Definitely not, since xml is just the file format used.
You can kall id dcopidl. I just called it kidl since that
is shorter and has a K :-)

Bye
torben

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