[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] macosx: split main interface class

[Felix Paul Kühne]

> On 21 Jul 2015, at 19:53, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> 
> On 21 Jul, Felix Paul Kühne wrote :
>> 
>>> On 21 Jul 2015, at 19:30, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 21 Jul, David Fuhrmann wrote :
>>>> We should discuss about naming. Here you renames InputManager to VLCInputManager, this is fine as long as we do it consistently.
>>> 
>>> You are in VLC, why do you need to name it VLC* ?
>> 
>> Because it is a VLC specific class file. Typical convention in ObjC code (see VLC-iOS.git). This is already used in most parts of the Mac interface just not at all.
> 
> iOS is a consumer of libVLC. The Macosx interface is not.

Well, we are using that nomenclature since the early days of the Mac interface (see VLCMain, VLCOpen, VLCPlaylist, …). This is also a good way to differentiate imported from native classes, which may not be obvious otherwise.

Best regards,

Felix