Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 26780 invoked by uid 500); 10 May 2001 11:20:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 26615 invoked from network); 10 May 2001 11:20:35 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:19:47 +0200 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: David Reid Cc: APR Development List Subject: Re: New memory code renaming Message-ID: <20010510131947.H24919@angua.rince.de> Mail-Followup-To: David Reid , APR Development List References: <056901c0d8eb$f9285ca0$6400a8c0@godzilla> <20010510124617.F24919@angua.rince.de> <007e01c0d942$29ecd630$7f00a8c0@VAIO> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <007e01c0d942$29ecd630$7f00a8c0@VAIO>; from dreid@jetnet.co.uk on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:54:20AM +0100 X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:54:20AM +0100, David Reid wrote: > Why memsys??? I'm sorry I just don't follow the logic. The code deals with > memory doesn't it? semantics time: apr_memory is a noun. to me, it implies ownership of the memory by apr. apr_memory_system (or memsys): implies management of memory, the responsibility for its management. not ownership. okay, one reads easier than the other. *shrug* > Do we need to say more? not really :) i was just stating my personal preference: the rest is up to you :) > Do users really care? i wouldn't know :) > > then you can publish the API, name the .so that you wish to be loaded. > > OK, but it's a long way aways yet anyway... yep.