[rust-dev] Naming convention for libraries

2011-11-01 Thread Patrick Walton
We recently renamed libstd.so to libruststd.so to avoid stomping on a libstd that might exist in /usr/lib. Perhaps we should attack this in a more holistic way: either (a) all Rust libraries should start with rust* or (b) Rust libraries should install themselves into /usr/lib/rust. The latter

Re: [rust-dev] Naming convention for libraries

2011-11-01 Thread Brendan Eich
On Nov 1, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Patrick Walton wrote: We recently renamed libstd.so to libruststd.so to avoid stomping on a libstd that might exist in /usr/lib. Perhaps we should attack this in a more holistic way: either (a) all Rust libraries should start with rust* or (b) Rust libraries

Re: [rust-dev] Naming convention for libraries

2011-11-01 Thread Brian Anderson
On 11/01/2011 08:52 AM, Patrick Walton wrote: We recently renamed libstd.so to libruststd.so to avoid stomping on a libstd that might exist in /usr/lib. Perhaps we should attack this in a more holistic way: either (a) all Rust libraries should start with rust* or (b) Rust libraries should

Re: [rust-dev] Naming convention for libraries

2011-11-01 Thread Brian Anderson
On 11/01/2011 10:04 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: On Nov 1, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Patrick Walton wrote: We recently renamed libstd.so to libruststd.so to avoid stomping on a libstd that might exist in /usr/lib. Perhaps we should attack this in a more holistic way: either (a) all Rust libraries should