Bug#603393: Fw: Re: [DebianGIS] Putting libgis into Debian GIS tasks (Was: RFS: libgis - virtual globe library)

[Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com>]

Fwd from the DebianGIS list:

Hamish wrote:
> <with emphasis>
>   --> please pick a less generic name for the
> package/library!
> </>
> 
> the namespace collision will cause problems. fwiw GRASS has now
> renamed its main library from that to libgrass_gis.so a couple
> of releases ago, anticipating such a thing could happen, but
> I'm not sure what is still out there and would rather not have
> to deal with the consequences of someone's ./configure trying
> to link to the wrong one.
>
> please, please..

(as far as "we were here first" arguments go, we'd been using
that name since sometime in the 1980s..)

but moreover, the name doesn't describe what it does very well,
if at all, as compared to say libvirtglobe or something.


thanks a whole bunch,
Hamish