Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/24] tools lib traceevent: Rename pevent to tep for preparation for library

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Aug 09 2018 - 04:12:10 EST


On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 11:55:48AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Having libtraceevent turn into a proper library has long been asked for.
> I never had time to do it before. Luckily, Tzvetomir was able to spend
> the time to start the preparation. The first thing that needs to be done
> is to handle namespace collisions. "pevent" was the prefix I chose, but
> many people were displeased by it, as it didn't express what the functions
> were used for. After discussing with many people at many conferences
> I've come up with "tep", which means "Trace Event Parser". Please don't
> question this. The bikeshed has been painted and I'm not changing the
> color.

nah... now when I see it 'te' actualy sounds better ;)))) just kidding,
great we finaly got to this.. is there a branch somewhere with this?

thanks,
jirka