On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Eric Rahm <
er...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Jonathan Kew <
jfkt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Wouldn't it be more "modern Gecko-ish", though, to drop the "ns" prefix,
> > and perhaps put Auto[C]String into the mozilla namespace?
> >
> >
> As Nick said, renaming all the things is a job for another day :)
>
> Coincidentally I have some pending changes that affect the internal naming
> of all of our strings. Externally (outside of xpcom/string) there will be
> no discernible change but I *could* move everything to the mozilla
> namespace and drop the 'ns' prefix. We could then gradually migrate to the
> new naming scheme externally. I think we'd eventually want to move the
> include path to 'mozilla/String.h' as well if we went this route, in the
> interim we could just have stubs that redirect to the mozilla path.
>