On Wednesday 31 Mar 2004 5:02 pm, Sven Panne wrote:
Adrian Hey wrote:
Maybe if we call what I've produced Multimedia.SDL.Core, though since it actually includes SDL_image and SDL_ttf also, maybe I should split these out to produce.. Multimedia.SDL.Core Multimedia.SDL.Image Multimedia.SDL.TTF so anybody who felt inclined to write a binding for one of the many SDL extension libraries could use Multimedia.SDL.<whatever> (Or maybe my "Core" binding should still be just Multimedia.SDL?)
"Core" is not very descriptive IMHO, what about staying close to the structure of the SDL library documentation (e.g. http://sdldoc.csn.ul.ie/):
Multimedia.SDL.General Multimedia.SDL.Video Multimedia.SDL.Window Multimedia.SDL.Events ...
What I'm proposing to do is 3 separate packages.. Multimedia.SDL(.Core perhaps) Multimedia.SDL.Image Multimedia.SDL.TTF ..because I think it would be nice to have 1:1 correspondance between Haskell packages and SDL packages (SDL,SDL_image,SDL_ttf). This makes dependencies clear and means Haskellers won't have to install SDL stuff they don't need. I think the only real issue is should the core (I.E. the SDL binding) actually have a .Core suffix? Let's say it didn't. In the Multimedia directory I have.. * A directory called SDL * A single Haskell source file called SDL.hs which wraps the API defined in the various Haskell source files in the SDL directory. Within the SDL directory the naming of individual source files does indeed follow the SDL documentation, as you suggest (well up to a point anyway). But these are all *.hs files that are part of a single library (package). The naming convention above identifies distinct SDL related libraries (which will also have corresponding directories and *.hs files of course, but that's not relevant here AFAICS). The point is that the API's of Multimedia.SDL.Image and Multimedia.SDL.TTF are not exported by Multimedia.SDL, as some might expect. Maybe having an explicit .Core suffix would be clearer. (Though we have a similar situation with Foreign and Foreign.C for example, so I guess it's not really an issue). Regards -- Adrian Hey