[libvirt] question on API spelling

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Apr 2 23:05:53 UTC 2012


We're quite inconsistent on US (canceled) vs. UK (cancelled) spelling in
our public API:

include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in:124:
VIR_DOMAIN_RUNNING_MIGRATION_CANCELED = 6,  /* returned from migration */
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in:125:    VIR_DOMAIN_RUNNING_SAVE_CANCELED =
7,   /* returned from failed save process */
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in:3220:    VIR_DOMAIN_JOB_CANCELLED = 5, /*
Job was aborted, but isn't cleaned up */
include/libvirt/virterror.h:247:
   canceled/aborted by user */
include/libvirt/virterror.h:248:    VIR_ERR_AUTH_CANCELLED = 79,
/* authentication cancelled */

Is it worth adding aliases so that a programmer can use consistent spelling?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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