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In the Kotlin implementation of the Glean SDK we have a glean.private package. (( Ideally anything that was actually private in the Glean SDK would actually _be_ private and inaccessible, but in order to support our SDK magic (okay, so that the SDK could work properly by generating the Specific Metrics API in subcomponents) we needed something public that we just didn’t want anyone to use. )) For a little while this week it looked like the use of the Java keyword private in the name was going to be problematic. Here are some of the alternatives we came up with:
glean.pvtglean.privatglean.p.r.i.v.a.t.eglean.thisIsntForYouDontUseItglean.turn_off_all_security_so_that_viruses_can_take_over_this_computerglean.chutten.says.noglean.using.this.makes.janerik.weepglean.dont.use.or.md.BOOMglean.corporal– Likeglean.privatebut with a promotion
Fortunately (or unfortunately) :mdboom (whom I might have to start calling Dr. Boom) came up with a way to make it work with the package private intact, so we’ll never know which one we would’ve gone with.
Alas.
I guess I’ll just have to console myself with the knowledge that we’ve deployed this fix to Fenix, Python bindings are becoming a reality, and the first code supporting the FOGotype might be landing in mozilla-central. (More to come on all of that, later)
:chutten
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