CamelCasing our libraries ?

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Sat Feb 16 09:50:53 UTC 2013


On Saturday 16 February 2013, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2013 18:15:41 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > any opinions abouut changing our library names to CamelCase, like
> > libKCoreAddons.so, together with the package named KCoreAddons ?
> > Right now it is libkcoreaddons, and the cmake variables for it are
> > kcoreaddons_FOUND, kcoreaddons_INCLUDE_DIRS etc.
> > 
> > I'd prefer to CamelCase them. This would also be consistent with Qt.
> > We can do that step by step as the libs move from staging/ into
> > tier[123]/.
> > 
> > Comments ?
> 
> I've been wondering about that too... I think the "consistent with Qt"
> argument is the right one to go down that path.
> 
> If we generally agree on that the following steps should be taken though:
>  * Making the change globally for everything currently in tier[123];
>  * Adding that check to the definition of done in the kdelibs splitting
> wiki page
> 
> Note that modules should probably not follow that rule though.

KDE's well know cvs modules, CMake's Find-modules, loadable plugin modules or 
some other modules ?

Alex


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