qca-qt5 package name

[David Edmundson]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:

> alohas.
>
> recently the QCA maintainer and I got into a discussion [1] whether a
> qca-qt5 library should be a different config inside the same cmake
> package or an independent one (detailed discussion in the longest
> comment thread of the review).
>
> > find_package(Qca NAMES Qca-qt5 Qca-QT5 Qca-5 Qca REQUIRES)
>
> or
>
> > find_package(Qca-qt5)
>
> former is very much in line with the maintainer's expectation of how
> qca is supposed to have any odd suffix supplied by the distro [2] that
> would eventually disappear,


If the prefix ever disappears, aren't we going to end up with exactly the
same crisis in reverse, with Qt4 apps now accidentally linking against a
Qt5 library with exactly the same name?


> whereas my thinking in latter is that if
> distros start shipping a suffixed version it is here to stay and
> really should not be considered a configuration within the regular QCA
> package.
>
> any thoughts on whether one is more desirable than the other? I am not
> quite sure what one would generally consider proper here.
>
> [1] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121323/
> [2] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121168/
>
> HS
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