[Bf-committers] Removing prefixes from BGE Python objects

[Dalai Felinto]

Hi Mitchell,
I have mixed feelings about it. If the reason for the changes are only and
purely for a matter of 'looking nice" it may be better to put that on hold.
I.e. is there is no need to change the API (therefore to break scripts) why
are we doing it? Taking in account that 2.5 is already changing so much
stuff, there may be a better time for that.

Things as OB prefix or mathutils were needed (e.g. OB for the lack of
consistency on where to use them and where not to). I'm all in for
improvements, but a bit reticent on API changes for the time been.

That being said, if those are changes Benoit and Erwin agree that should be
made, maybe the sooner the better.
Cheers,

Dalai

2010/10/4 Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>

> Think this is a reasonable improvement but we did agree not to modify
> the BGE api (with breaking changes), where possible for blender 2.5x.
>
> bge.types (formally GameTypes module) was only in 2.48, 2.49 IIRC?, so
> its probably not going to make anywhere near is much trouble as other
> changes we made already (using mathutils or removing the OB prefix
> from objects), so its ok with me but others may disagree.
>  - Benoit/Erwin ???
>
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Mitchell Stokes <mogurijin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I propose that we remove the prefixes such as KX_, SCA_, BL_, etc from
> the
> > names of the Python objects for the BGE.
> >
> > The benefits include:
> >  * The names would be nicer looking
> >  * The names would be similar to the bpy api
> >
> > The downside: breaking scripts
> >
> > With Python's duck typing, not very many scripts will actually break from
> > the change though. I think mostly ones that explicitly use bge.types for
> > some reason. Thoughts?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mitchell Stokes (Moguri)
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