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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Sven Panne
One point here is debatable: Do we really need the ".Rendering" part in the package name or would simply "Graphics.OpenGL.Raw" be enough? We discussed the structure of the hierarchy when hierarchical packages were in their infancy, many years ago, and it was consensus then to distinguish between "Graphics.Rendering" and "Graphics.UI". I don't have very strong feelings about ".Rendering" and ".UI", and if the consensus nowadays is to remove it, I'll be happy to change this. But let's move the discussion about this to the libraries mailing list.
Perhaps it's time to overhaul the hierarchy. Some top level module namespaces like Network have become very crowded. Network is a very generic name that it conveys very little information today when most software has a network component. I suggest that parts of it be broken out into new top level modules. As a first step I suggest we create a new Http (and not HTTP with all caps please) module where we can have: Http.Client Http.Server Http.UrlEncoding Http.Cookies etc. Cheers, Johan