DBus properties naming rules

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Tue Sep 8 11:09:55 PDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Aaron J. Seigo<aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On September 7, 2009, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> Why do you think properties should be treated like members ? This change
>> would apply new restriction to property names that have the potential to
>> render a lot of existing interfaces noncompliant, for very little gain.
> right now we have an inconsistency between one type of item available in an
> interface compared to all the rest. service names, methods, signals all have
> these restrictions on them and properties stand out as odd ducks. consistency
> is a good trait.

It makes as much sense, as forcing Java (or C++ or Python or whatever)
to use same case and format for class names, constants, functions,
methods, properties, namespaces and local variables. ;)

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki


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