[libvirt] C# bindings (Was: First patch)

[arnaud.champion at devatom.fr]

Okay, it's a good idea, I'm going for it

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From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:15 PM
To: "Matthias Bolte" <matthias.bolte at googlemail.com>
Cc: <arnaud.champion at devatom.fr>; <libvir-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [libvirt] C# bindings (Was: First patch)

> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 05:43:50PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
>> 2010/10/18  <arnaud.champion at devatom.fr>:
>> > The class library expose the "LibvirtBindings" namespace. This 
>> > namespace
>> > expose all needed types (enum, struct). It also expose 2 main classes :
>> > "libVirt" and "libvirtError". The "libVirt" class expose all 
>> > interfaces of
>> > the libvirt library to handle virtualized domains and "libvirtError" 
>> > class
>> > expose all interfaces of the libvirt library to handle errors raised 
>> > while
>> > using the library.
>>
>> Is there a specific reason to use three different ways to capitalize
>> libvirt in the C# code?
>>
>> LibvirtBindings
>> libVirt
>> libvirtError
>>
>> I suggest you choose one form and stick with it, for example
>>
>> LibvirtBindings
>> Libvirt
>> LibvirtError
>
> Personally I'd make the naming look much more like the Java bindings.
> Instead of following the C naming directly which is fugly for non-C
> languages, have a 'libvirt' namespace, and then use plain names
> like 'Connect', 'Domain', 'Network' for the objects and strip the
> prefix off the method names to 'Connect.open', 'Domain.dump_xml'
> etc
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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