[Rock-dev] PROPOSAL: change policy on vizkit3d plugin namespaces

[Alexander Duda]

On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 11:13 +0200, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> The current policy for vizkit3d plugins is to put them in the vizkit 
> namespace, regardless of which package defines them
> 
> This is wrong for the following reason:
> 
>   - this is inconsistent with the rest of the namespace policy (one 
> namespace per library)
>   - namespaces are used for a reason: avoiding name clashes
>   - since vizkit plugins are loaded dynamically, name clashes silently 
> cause weird problems at runtime between completely unrelated packages.
> 
> Background: I spent 2x 1.5 hours the last two weeks tracking down weird 
> bugs that were due to name clashes between -viz.so libraries.
> 
> My vote: +1

+1 

Alex


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