[SAGA-RG] package renaming proposal

[Andre Merzky]

Hi again, 

there was no oppposition for the proposal below, and we'll thus
implement the package name change as proposed.

Thanks, Andre.


Quoting [Andre Merzky] (Feb 25 2010):
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> while implementing the Core API, we stumbled over the following
> naming issue: in the current package naming scheme, we end up with
> names like
> 
>   saga::file::file
>   saga::file::directory
> 
>   saga::logical_file::logical_file
>   saga::logical_file::logical_directory
> 
> the file::file type names are somewhat annoying, the file::directory
> type names are also somewhat confusing (which is it now?).  The
> problem is obviously that saga packages have sometimes the same
> names as saga classes.
> 
> We would like to propose to change the package names, to
> 
>   saga::filesystem::file
>   saga::filesystem::directory
> 
>   saga::replica::logical_file
>   saga::replica::logical_directory
> 
> The SAGA-C++, JavaSAGA and JSAGA implementors, and the python
> binding authors, seem not to be opposed toward that change.  In
> fact, C++ and Python have those changes already partially
> implemented, for various reasons.  We would thus very much like to
> reconcile the implementations with the spec.
> 
> Note that would be the second backward compatibility braking API
> change I believe, after removing context.set_defaults().
> 
> Please comment.
> 
> Best, Andre.
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