RE: [Wxruby-dev] Group vote on naming questions

[Curt Hibbs]

Kevin Smith wrote:
>
> I would like a "group vote" on some naming issues. Ideally the core
> people would respond this weekend, so I can completely finish the naming
> transformation this weekend. Here are the questions:
>
> ----
> 1. Currently, the library is named 'wxruby', but the module is named
> 'Wx'. This means you might say:
>
> require 'wxruby'
> include 'Wx'
>
> I think 'wxruby' is perfect.

I agree.

> I think the module name should remain 'Wx', because it should start with
> an upper case letter, and should be mixed-case. I guess 'WxRuby' would
> be an option, but it seems too long if you choose not to use include and
> have to use WxRuby::... everywhere.
>
> Please vote for 'Wx', 'WxRuby', or something else.

I like "Wx".

> 2. Currently, classes are named like WxWindow, so you would either refer
> to them as:
>
> include 'Wx'
> WxWindow.new(...)
>
> or just
>
> Wx::WxWindow.new(...)
>
> This seems redundant to me, so I would like to rename them to just
> Window instead of WxWindow. Ok?

I agree here, too -- go with "Wx::Window".

> 3. Currently, global constants are named like WxSUNKEN_BORDER.
>
> This also seems redundant to me, so I would like to rename them to just
> SUNKEN_BORDER? Ok?
> If not, it still seems like inconsistent case usage, so how about
> WX_SUNKEN_BORDER?

I would go with WX_SUNKEN_BORDER or put them in the module and use
Wx::SUNKEN_BORDER.

Curt