Naming covention for framworks

Kevin Ottens ervin at kde.org
Mon Apr 20 19:30:44 UTC 2015


Hello,

On Monday 20 April 2015 10:34:40 Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> Is there a nameing convention for frameworks? I'd like to name the kimap
> library, which isn't yet a framwork but will eventually become one,
> "KIMAP" (all upper-case), instead of the current "KImap", since IMAP is
> an acronym. Same goes for KLAP.
> 
> This would of course only apply to namespaces, the installed cmake files
> and project name, but not the repository.
> 
> I assume that is okay? Or is there a rule for first letter upper-case
> and all other lower-case?

I don't think there's any strong rule in that regard. Also we currently have 
KIO and KDNSSD in our offering, clearly all uppercase acronyms there.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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