Capitals in directory names

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Jun 13 23:09:49 PDT 2005


On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:46:22PM -0700, Jeff Smith wrote:
> --- Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > >    - What is the mapping between the proto module and the library module
> > >      (eg., PanoramiX/Xinerama brain damage).
> > 
> > None, necessarily (e.g. record/xtest).
> 
> Perhaps someone familiar with some of these could start a wiki page that lists the
> mappings (where they exist).  Or is there already such a page?  And could anyone
> enlighten me on the cause of the protocol/library name schism?

It's pretty simple -- a wire protocol just lets you send requests down
the wire.  How you expose to the client through the API is up to you,
and often people have different ideas about it.  Hence multiple
interfaces to different protocols, and as such, there is no single
protocol->library mapping.
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