On 06/09/13 16:22, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:34:17 +0100 Tom Hacohen <[email protected]> said:
>
>> On 06/09/13 14:02, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>>> On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:25:24 +0100 Tom Hacohen <[email protected]>
>>> said:
>>>
>>>> On 03/09/13 22:25, Côme BERNIGAUD wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I saw that there is a new component named EO in the EFLs.
>>>>> EO is already a library, it stands for «Evolving Objects» :
>>>>> http://eodev.sourceforge.net/
>>>>>
>>>>> This is causing trouble, at least for one file:
>>>>> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/eo.pc is the pkgconfig for evolving objects, which is
>>>>> already used by several projects over the past years.
>>>>>
>>>>> So it might be a good thing if you could rename at least this file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Côme
>>>>>
>>>>> PS: The problem was found when trying to install the AUR package efl-git
>>>>> on ArchLinux, but I'm pretty sure this file is from upstream.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> File is indeed from upstream. We had the same discussion at the time (in
>>>> this ML), and decided to just ignore eodev's existence. To be fair, we
>>>> concentrated more about the namespace, and less about the library
>>>> name/pkg-config file name. I don't really mind changing it, the problem
>>>> is change what, and to what extent?
>>>>
>>>> Other people: what do you think about it?
>>>
>>> i'm pretty ambivalent to a rename... just keep it as close to eo.pc as
>>> possible (efl-eo.pc?)
>>
>> I can do that, but is that really what we want?
>>
>> Kinda sucks. :| Also, I wonder about their header names, is it Eo.h as
>> well? Sure, we store it somewhere else on the file-system (eo-1), but
>> that still could be a problem with #include.
>
> no idea. worth looking at. but this means something wants to use both eo AND
> this other lib.. and thats basically likely zero chance... as we put our
> headers inside dirs of our own... but pc's live all in the same dir thus have
> to not conflict.

Not if they ship their headers to /usr/include/Eo.h or whatever.

--
Tom.


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