Re: drm: Branch 'master'

[Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>]

On 27.8.2010 12:02, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:26:59 +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>
>> Why keeping different name for C++ and C ?
>>
> Because changing the name for C means breaking API for existing users,
> which is not a nice thing to do.
>


Well if DRM would have very stable API - it would make sence - but from a view 
of occasional user who needs to compile drm for intel driver - it seems the 
API is changed so frequently and in such an incompatible way that this change 
doesn't look all that bad.

How many libdrm project users are there - and how often is this variable used 
outside of libdrm ?

Now C++ will use different names for same variables - that IMHO bigger issue...

Also - if headers are supposed to be C++ friendly - maybe usage of
extern "C" might be handy for such case ?

Zdenek


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