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

Alexander Potashev aspotashev at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 11:00:33 BST 2015


2015-09-27 12:42 GMT+03:00 Boudhayan Gupta <bgupta at kde.org>:
> I'm still in favour of a new product, or reusing KDESupport, or even
> Extragear libs. If you must use a suffix though, please consider using
> Qt5, not -qt5, so that the lib becomes libSomeThingQt5, not
> libSomeThing-qt5.

Boudhayan,

Camel case naming rule applies only to the frameworks already in KF5.
If your library is not part of KF5, then you can name it in lowercase:
libkcompactdisc-qt5, and the dash doesn't look ugly here IMO.

-- 
Alexander Potashev




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