Naming scheme for Qt5/KF5-based libraries outside of KF5

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Diumenge, 27 de setembre de 2015, a les 04:01:26, Boudhayan Gupta va 
escriure:
> On 27 September 2015 at 03:36, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > El Dissabte, 26 de setembre de 2015, a les 16:27:22, Sune Vuorela va 
escriure:
> >> On 2015-09-26, Alexander Potashev <aspotashev at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > 1. Many people prefer a "KF5" prefix, e.g. libKF5Screen.so).
> >> > 2. Another way of naming is a -qt5 suffix, e.g. libmarblewidget-qt5.so.
> >> > 3. (probably some others?)
> >> > 
> >> > Friedrikh said in [1] that using a KF5 prefix for all libraries will
> >> > "blur the hint by the name if something is part of KF5 or not".
> >> > 
> >> > Any thoughts? I believe we can have guidelines for library names.
> >> 
> >> I do think that having things named KF5 that aren't actual frameworks is
> >> bad for several reasons.
> >> 
> >> 1) It blurs what's a framework
> >> 2) We promise ABI and API compatibility for frameworks, but not for
> >> other things
> >> 3) Moving something from "not a KDE Framework" to "KDE Framework" gives
> >> a last chance for fixing up abi/api.
> >> 
> >> so. foo-qt5 is fine for a qt5 version of foo.
> > 
> > I agree, the problem is that there's few exceptions to copy from, so
> > that's
> > the exact reason libkdegames has that KF5 thing in the name, the guy that
> > did the port just copied what the frmeworks do.
> > 
> > So anyone up for write what "a library that is not frameworks should do to
> > be nice in the KDE land"?
> 
> We could kill two birds with one stone here, creating a new KDE module
> just for libraries (say, KDE Companion Libraries or something) and put
> everything in the KC5 (or whatever we decide) namespace.
> 
> I'm all for just putting everything in KDE Support, using the KS5
> namespace and removing the tier0 restriction from Support.

I don't see which birds it kills, as far as I see it it only gives you the 
problem of having yet another product to release.

Cheers,
  Albert



> 
> -- Boudhayan