KDevelop3.4 newui library has a bad name

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 05.06.07 23:59:27, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> On 6/5/07, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> > the newui library in KDevelop3.4 is called "d" and it is installed when
> > installing kdevelop3.4. I think "d" is a pretty bad name and just asks
> > for conflicts with other libraries, but I don't know wether we can
> > change it or not this late?
> Quick googling reveals no similar libs except for libd from some tool
> named "sharefuzz" that existed 5 years ago. Looks like we're safe
> enough. I don't mind renaming it btw, just it doesn't make much sense
> to care about 3.4 now.

Well, somebody showed up on IRC who thought he found a bug in KDevelop
because when he put a libd.so from his own game into /usr/kde/3.5/lib
kdevelop crashed. KDevelop on his system was installed into /usr, but
3.5/lib has preference over /usr/lib as per ld.so.conf.

An apt-file search reveals only kdevelop with that library name here on
my system. Still its a pretty bad name to choose.

> > Alternatively maybe we can make libd just a convenience library that
> > doesn't need to be installed? (I don't have much autofoo).
> Nope, it's still a part of 3.4 platform (even if nobody except
> kdevelop and kuanta used it).

Whats kuanta? Never heard of that. However if that is an existing
application that uses the library we can't change it.

Andreas

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