From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-12-26T07:18:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [ATTN] Prepare name freeze of RAA

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 06:34:03 +0900, jared jennings wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 14:38:42 +0900
> "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@keynauts.com> wrote:
>> Project owners, please go RAA http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/ now
>> and search RAA with your name to see if your project names are
>> appropriate for RAA users to remember. An user may
> In thinking about making the name of my project, ruby-audiofile,
> more canonical, i have two questions:
> 
> 1. should i take the "ruby-" off?

IMO, yes.

> 2. should it be more hierarchical (e.g., "Sound::Audiofile" ->
> sound-audiofile)? (probably the issue of hierarchical stuff has
> been discussed a lot in raa vs. cpan threads, but i've missed most
> of that)

I'm not sure that's the best choice -- and is IMO one of the
problems with bindings to Linux-based C/C++ libraries. As a Windows
user, Sound::Audiofile sounds like it could be useful to me, but it
won't be -- because it binds to a Linux library not likely to be
available (and according to SGI's OSS pages, probably won't be).

Additionally, libaudiofile doesn't actually produce *sound*; it
helps with the manipulation of various audio file formats. Thus, I
think that it would actually be better named File::Audio -- but that
still doesn't solve the Linux/Windows library problem, and I don't
honestly have a suggestion or solution for that.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.12.25 at 17.16.18