[flashrom] Namespace prefix for libflashrom

[Antonio Ospite]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 15:54:50 -0700
David Hendricks <david.hendricks at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:16:18 -0700
> > David Hendricks <david.hendricks at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > I'd love to hear some arguments about your preferences.
> 
> 
> I'd be fine with libflashrom_. Since it seems there is no definitive
> favorite short prefix I think we should just forget about those and use a
> longer one. And in the grand scheme of things neither libflashrom_ nor
> flashrom_ are very long.
>

After hearing the arguments on the list I too formed an opinion about
the matter, my preference list is:

 - flashrom_ (the lib prefix is redundant IMHO, lot of libraries omit
              it in the API, e.g.: libglib, libgtk);
 - libflashrom_ (I would tolerate it, it's still better than cryptic
                 prefixes);

and maybe one I didn't see:

 - libfr_ (flash-rom is two words, so "fr" as abbreviation makes sense,
           but there's really no need to be so concise).

Ciao ciao,
   Antonio

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