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Re: namespacing issues with Gnulib


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: namespacing issues with Gnulib
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 12:54:52 -0800
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On 2022-12-08 12:19, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
The one that pops to mind is prefixing everything with ``gl_'', and
exposing aliases maybe.  The former is unergonomic and latter is
fragile, though.

Yes, my take on this is to leave Gnulib alone, and change the app to not attempt to redefine Gnulib's symbols. Which is what appears to be happening.

This is one of the "advantages" of using a source-code library like Gnulib.



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