Deimos: Consistent structure?

[Walter Bright]

On 11/20/2011 11:31 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-11-20 22:52, Jude Young wrote:
>> On Sun 20 Nov 2011 02:20:18 PM CST, David Nadlinger wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> currently, the 0mq and ncurses Deimos bindings place their modules in
>>> the root (both package- and directory-wise), while the liblzma ones
>>> use deimos.lzma and deimos.lzma_.*.
>>>
>>> The actual choice probably doesn't matter at all, but could we maybe
>>> pick one and then stick to it (including appropriate documentation of
>>> this decision, of course)? In my eyes, consistency would improve the
>>> "Just Works"-appeal of Deimos by quite a bit.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>
>> I asked Walter about it and he preferred the modules in the root.
>> Another guy claimed it would lead to namespace clashes but refused to
>> elaborate.
>>
>> There is a lot about Deimos that isn't documented.
>> It'll get there.
>
> Say that both liblzma and ncurses have a module called "util". What happens if I
> want to use both of these libraries in the same application. When I do "import
> util;" which one will the compiler pick?

import liblzma.util;
import ncurses.util;


> I suggest there is a root package named after the library. If people want a
> deimos package, that's fine with me as well. But there has to be a package named
> after the library where all modules should be located, except for, possibly, a
> module that imports the whole library.

That already is so. What I objected to was:

import liblzma.D.util;

as pointless.