Re: [Inkscape-devel] extension namespace

Aurélio A. Heckert wrote, On 01/07/09 19:56: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 22:38 +0100, Thomas Holder wrote: >>> is it possible to make the new namespace for inx files optional? >>> I see no real benefit for the namespace, but it is a real >>> drawback that all previous custom extensions will become invalid >>> (until you add the namespace to the inx files). When we release >>> 0.47 lots of users will be confused and will report bugs for this >>> I guess. >> Not really. Basically by doing this transition once we make things >> a lot better for the future. I wasn't able to find a way to bring >> in old files without doing something nasty like string editing them >> on the fly -- which isn't desirable at all. we could use a function like that to match all tag names: gboolean match_tagname(const gchar *cstr, const gchar *tagname, const gchar *ns = INKSCAPE_EXTENSION_NS_NC) { gchar *str = (gchar*) cstr; int nslen = strlen(ns); if (!strncmp(str, ns, nslen)) if (str[nslen] == ':') str += nslen + 1; if (*str == '_') str += 1; return strcmp(str, tagname) == 0; } maybe this is "nasty", but it works (I've tested it) and I would prefer it over broken old extensions.