[Kamailio-Devel] Perl module renaming

[Alex Balashov]

Klaus Darilion wrote:
> 
> Bastian Friedrich schrieb:
>> Klaus,
>>
>> On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Klaus Darilion wrote:
>>> Hi Bastian!
>>>
>>> Could you please rename the perl modules from OpenSER::.... to Kamailio::
>>>
>>> I do not have that much experience with perl ...
>> these renamings will break running installations out there; Perl scripts 
>> include libraries with lines such as
>> use OpenSER::Message;
> 
> Ok. Is this something that can be solved with symlinks?

Not entirely;  there are various namespace bindings within the code.

In a purely Perl module, something like this typically appears in the 
.pm package:

    package OpenSER::Miracles::PerpetualMotion;

This, in tandem with the directory structure 
(OpenSER/Miracles/PerpetualMotion.pm) is what allows the module to be 
"used" elsewhere:

    use OpenSER::Miracles::PerpetualMotion;

In the case of XS modules (C code with Perl API hooks), there are bound 
to be similar constructs, although since I don't do XS I don't know what 
they are.

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