[pacman-dev] [PATCH 00/25] Rename types from pmfoo_t to alpm_foo_t

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Jun 28 08:32:27 EDT 2011


On 28/06/11 22:17, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> After discussion here and on IRC, it was decided that rather than
>> changing the one struct from alpm_foo_t to pmfoo_t for consistency,
>> it would instead be better to rename all the other structs to follow
>> the alpm_foo_t scheme.  Given we are pushing towards 4.0, now is the
>> best (only?) time to do this.
>>
>> I am not going to send the enitre patchset here as that would just be
>> overkill.  Take a look at the patches in my repo:
>> http://projects.archlinux.org/users/allan/pacman.git/log/?h=breakshit
>
> Two observations:
> 1. Where is pmpkg_t?

In with pmtrans_t for some reason...  will fix!

> 2. Does anyone else find "grp" kind of silly? pkg is ubiquitous and at
> least less than 50% of the length of package, but I might propose
> shifting the type name to "alpm_group_t".

Seems reasonable to me.  I can adjust this.


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