On Friday 28 November 2014 07:26:25 Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: > Hello list > > I am wondering if any of you has some good advice on name extensions for > libraries for both Qt4 and Qt5. > > In Debian I see the QtGui (and more) are named libQtGui for qt4 and > libQt5Gui for qt5. > Is this Debian specific or based on any recommendations? > > There is an ongoing discussion about the Qwt library here: > http://sourceforge.net/p/qwt/mailman/qwt-interest/?viewmonth=201411&style=th > readed > > and I will be very happy if there is a consensus that can be applied by > upstream and accepted by most Linux distributions. I hope there is one and I > have just missed it :) Hi Gudjon! I barely missed the mail. The naming scheme comes from upstream. But it is indeed based on recommendations, as you need to keep a proper soname. I quickly glanced over Rex Dieter's mails, and the suggestions seems sane enough. Qt5Qwt is not bad, but may be like stepping over Qt's upstream's toes. Kinds regards, Lisandro. -- "No es el crecimiento de la tecnología lo que excluye, sino la protección sistemática de los derechos de uso de la misma, lo cual se puede aplicar al arte." David Cuartielles Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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