> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 18:21 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Do you think you could put the "or" into the package name; > > e.g. "coinorutils"? > > > > When I read the title, I assumed it was related to the Coin libraries > > (www.coin3d.org), which are in Debian as libcoin40-runtime, etc. > > I learned about coin3d when some coin3d user ended up asking questions > on the coin-or mailinglist. Yes, great name clash. Thinking about it - > it seems to be a good idea to do prefix all package names with coinor, > e.g. coinor-utils, coinor-clp, coinor-osi etc, though I don't think it > will help the confusion much as long as the coin3d packages have a > generic coin name :( > I guess one of them will need to change their SONAMEs, because -lCoin will definitely cause trouble (note that for some reason, both coin3d and coin-or decided to use uppercase library names...). If it's first come first serve, coin-or will be the one to change. BTW, Soeren, if you need any help at this or any later point in packaging/maintaining COIN-OR, please feel free to ping me. I've mainly been using COIN-OR, but liked it a lot, and seeing it packaged would take some burden off of some of my software projects. Best, Michael
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