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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday, September 27, 2015 17:21:04 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2015-09-27, Boudhayan Gupta <bgupta at kde.org> wrote:
> > What I propose is that all libraries which want to manage their own
> > release cycles and their own namespaces, be moved to Extragear Libs
> > and release from there. All the libraries which can stick to the
> > Applications release-unit, move to Support or a new module and be
> > released with them.
> 
> What happens if an Applications application uses an extragear lib? or an
> extragear application uses an application lib?
> 
> Yes. this will happen.
> 
> And then you have a abi/api unstable library out of sync with the
> application it uses. And that's highly annoying.
> 
> Seen before with e.g. Digikam/Gwenview/KPhotoAlbum and
> libkipi/libkexiv2/...
> 
> 
> I don't see why we need a extra organizational level to house something
> we should try to avoid to have in the fist place.
> 
> Let's get all good libraries made frameworks.


+1

Alex