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libblitz - name space pollution
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| Andreas Tille 2007-08-29, 1:22 pm |
| Hi,
I noticed that we have a name space polution:
$ apt-cache search libblitz
libblitz-dev - KDE/Qt image filter library - development files
libblitz0 - C++ template class library for scientific computing
libblitz4 - KDE/Qt image filter library
libblitz0-dev - C++ template class library for scientific computing
libblitz-doc - C++ template class library for scientific computing
libblitz0ldbl - C++ template class library for scientific computing
which means that two completely different library and both of them
install /usr/lib/libblitz.so (and other files).
I feel responsible for libblitz++ (group maintained with Konstantinos
Margaritis) and I personally initiated changing the name from
libblitz++ to libblitz in the package because some tools did not
really liked the '++' but the actual files are named without the '++'
anyway and thus re-renaming the package to libblitz++ would not help
anyway. So what would be the best way to go in this case?
I have no idea about the importance and role of libblitz inside
the KDE project and I'm definitely think that blitz is a generic
name that is not really well choosen in both cases. The KDE
libblitz4 is at version number 0.0.3 so probably quite young
while libblitz++ is even though it did not reached version 1.0
a quite old project.
Any reasonable advise?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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| Ana Guerrero 2007-08-29, 1:22 pm |
| Hi Andreas,
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:22:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that we have a name space polution:
>
> $ apt-cache search libblitz
> libblitz-dev - KDE/Qt image filter library - development files
> libblitz0 - C++ template class library for scientific computing
> libblitz4 - KDE/Qt image filter library
> libblitz0-dev - C++ template class library for scientific computing
> libblitz-doc - C++ template class library for scientific computing
> libblitz0ldbl - C++ template class library for scientific computing
>
> which means that two completely different library and both of them
> install /usr/lib/libblitz.so (and other files).
>
> I feel responsible for libblitz++ (group maintained with Konstantinos
> Margaritis) and I personally initiated changing the name from
> libblitz++ to libblitz in the package because some tools did not
> really liked the '++' but the actual files are named without the '++'
> anyway and thus re-renaming the package to libblitz++ would not help
> anyway. So what would be the best way to go in this case?
>
> I have no idea about the importance and role of libblitz inside
> the KDE project and I'm definitely think that blitz is a generic
> name that is not really well choosen in both cases. The KDE
> libblitz4 is at version number 0.0.3 so probably quite young
> while libblitz++ is even though it did not reached version 1.0
> a quite old project.
>
> Any reasonable advise?
>
Do not worry about this, pusling noticed this problem while packaging blitz
(the KDE one  ), and asked upstream to rename it.
It is going to be renamed to qimageblitz. [0]
Ana
[0] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-de...94317314610&w=2
and http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-de...12754821665&w=2
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