[Gtkpod-devel] libgpod cleanup

[Jorg S. <Jor...@gm...>]

Hi everyone,

since undoubtedly Christophe's next post will ask for a quick release of 
a new version of libgpod I'd like to collect some input on what should 
be cleaned up at the same time.

I have some things:

- clean up namespace: most exported symbols use the itdb_ or Itdb_ 
identifiers, but there are at least all those spl* and SPL* symbols. 
Changing them to itdb_spl* and ITDB_SPL* will certainly break all 
applications supporting smart playlists, but probably the namespace 
should be cleaned up at some point. Did anyone find other namespace 
incursions?

- add some padding to structures most likely to be expanded in the 
future (see http://plan99.net/~mike/writing-shared-libraries.html) so we 
  can add elements without breaking binary compatibility (applications 
could have arrays of our structures).

- adding versioning (again see 
http://plan99.net/~mike/writing-shared-libraries.html as well as 
http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/manual/ld-2.9.1/html_node/ld_25.html) 
could be interesting.

Cheers,


JCS.