On 2014-01-24 12:40-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 01/23/2014 08:01 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >> @Orion and Andrew: I am especially interested in your comments on the >> implications of effectively dropping the "d" suffix for most of our >> distributed library names. >> > > This just came to me, the pkg-config name has the "d" suffix. This is > probably a bigger deal as projects would need to change to use "plplot" > instead of "plplotd". Still not insurmountable, but a big deal.
And another change that might be a big deal is that the driversd install location will become drivers. So if we decide to go ahead with this "d" suffix removal breakage we should list all these file and directory name changes in the OFFICIAL NOTICES right at the top of the Release notes so only users who skip reading those notices will get surprised. So I agree the "d" suffix removal is a big deal, but the benefits of having non-confusing library names are big as well. Thus, I would rather go through this pain this year rather than attempting to do the same thing 10 years from now. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
