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Subject:Re: When a "shim" is not a "shim" From:dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:05:40 -0700
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> What's a nice, innocuous one-word name/adjective to replace "shim"?
Two possibilities (using MacOS as an example):
1. On the newly supported OSes, this OS-specific library adds
functionality. You call routines in both the base library
AND in the OS-specific library directly.
Call it the "add-on library for MacOS" the first time;
after that, just call it the "add-on library" or the "MacOS
library."
2. On the newly supported OSes, you don't use the base library
directly; instead, you call functions THROUGH the OS-specific
library.
Call it the "Mac API" or the "Mac library." If you want to
use a single generic term that doesn't actually mention the
OS, call it the "adaptor library."
If you can manage to put it and the base library into a single
installer, then "Mac library" or "Mac API" would be even more
appropriate.
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