[packagekit] Possible API Changes?

Thomas Wood thomas at openedhand.com
Fri May 2 07:12:31 PDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:44 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:37 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > I've noticed some confusion about the get_description function because
> > it provides more details than just the description field.
> 
> Yes, it's not got the best name.
> 
> > Would it be too late to suggest renaming this to "get_details"?
> 
> get_details, get_package_details, get_package_info, get_info?
> 
> Anything better we could choose?

If you go for get_package_details you'll have to change all the other
"package specific" functions to match, such as get_depends and
get_files.

Regards,

Thomas

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