[Lemon-devel] Renaming basic classes

[Alpár Jüttner]

> according to my opinion the suggested changes are acceptable, they make 
> simpler getting familiar with LEMON.
> However I think that although these changes are well-explainable, we 
> loose users by making not very-very important name-changes constantly.
> It is important to follow naming-conventions, but we cannot force users 
> to constantly rewrite their working programs only for the sake of more 
> perfect naming conventions.
> I think that name-changes should be done only in the case when the 
> already existing names would be abuser furthermore (e.g. a new 
> function/structure is added that rather deserves the already existing name)

This is a problem indeed. That is why we decided to continue supporting
the backward compatible version until the API of version 1.0 is
stabilized (and a little bit more).
A shell script helping to convert existing codes are also planned to be
released.

> I think that if we vote on changing names, we should name our methods 
> and structures as similar to "concurrents" name-usage as possible. This 
> would make simpler to start using our library after using a nother one.

Basically I agree. IMHO the problem here is that e.g. LEDA and Boost
doesn't have true undirected graphs so they haven't faced with this
problem. Could someone check this?

Alpar