Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of AliasFunctionReview

Timestamp:

Oct 31, 2008, 6:10:36 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

rlaager

Comment:

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AliasFunctionReview

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 Currently, libpurple has a number of functions (in blist.h) that take a !PurpleBuddy and return some string based on one or more aliases. Some differ only slightly. Is it necessary to have all of these functions?
 
-This came up because we almost certainly need to add some function to return !PurpleBuddy::alias only. The names we were picking clashed with the existing functions:
+This came up because we almost certainly need to add some function to return !PurpleBuddy::alias only. The names we were picking clashed with the existing functions. Sadrul proposed _get_local_buddy_alias(). Richard agrees and suggests renaming that to _get_local_alias() in 3.0.0, replacing the currently unused (and newly deprecated) existing _get_local_alias().
 
 (COALESCE is borrowed from SQL to mean "return the first non-NULL item".)
@@ -85 +85 @@
 _get_local_alias = COALESCE(alias, parent->alias, name);
         Unused, so deprecated just now on im.pidgin.pidgin.next.minor for 2.6.0.
+        Richard proposes that, for 3.0.0, this return !PurpleBuddy::alias.
 
 _get_alias = COALESCE(alias, server_alias, parent->alias, name);