GD/gd Namespace issue

Beatnik has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey peeps,
I'm having a bit of an issue... I just finished a very dirty version of a gd (not GD based package (using XS. Now I dont currently plan support for GD type data (like passing GD objects or GD::Image objects). Anyway, I intend to call the module GD::Image::Filter::Blur. This can somehow be confusing. My question now is :

Would that be ok?
If not, how would you call it?

BTW I have a few other filters lying around, so Blur wont be lonely for that long :)

Greetz
Beatnik
...Perl is like sex: if you're doing it wrong, there's no fun to it.

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Re: GD/gd Namespace issue by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jun 22, 2002 at 16:02 UTC
That would be confusing. If you don't like `Image::`, maybe `GDLib::` would do. It would still be somewhat confusing, but at least it would indicate that there are two distinctily different things there. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re: GD/gd Namespace issue by Beatnik (Parson) on Jun 22, 2002 at 17:39 UTC
Well, I'm not sure if they will be 2 different things... I've written a very basic module and I dont plan to release anything until I have something more solid and abstract. Since I'm using gd, chances are I base some code on GD or I provide some functionality of gd itself too... My point being that I'm not using GD but gd and somehow it's similar :) I'll just wait how this thread evolves and hopefully release some nice stuff :) Greetz Beatnik ...Perl is like sex: if you're doing it wrong, there's no fun to it.	[reply]
Re: GD/gd Namespace issue by Anonymous Monk on Jun 22, 2002 at 03:42 UTC
No, that would not be ok. What kind of input does this thing support? I suggest Image::Filter::Blur or Image::Format::Filter::Blur, where Format is something like PNG. I'd pick the 2nd one only if your package only support's PNG's (or if you can separate it like that).	[reply]
Re: Re: GD/gd Namespace issue by Beatnik (Parson) on Jun 22, 2002 at 07:15 UTC
Since it uses gd (like the lib GD uses), JPEG, PNG, WBMP etc are supported and I dont intend to separate that code. In fact there is hardly any difference in accessing those formats with gd. Image::Filter has crosses my mind (as I put that on my homenode a few weeks ago when the idea popped in my head). The thing is that I might eventually use GD objects somehow. Greetz Beatnik ...Perl is like sex: if you're doing it wrong, there's no fun to it.	[reply]