package naming question: IT++

[Igor Gnatenko]

I think you want to use just plain itpp

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 10:40 AM Marco Driusso <marcodriusso at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a question about the right name to give to a package of the IT++
> library (package review request here ->
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264686, any review - and
> also sponsorship, I need one! - is welcome).
>
> Some info:
> - the actual name of the library is 'IT++', according to their web page
> and documentation http://itpp.sourceforge.net/4.3.1/;
> - the package used to be called 'itpp' in former versions of the spec in
> Fedora (now dead, since 2011);
> - the installed library comes out from the build process as
> 'libitpp.so*', but all headers are under %{_includedir}/itpp, of course
> contain a lot of #include <itpp/someheader.h>, and of course all HTML
> documentation is written accordingly (basically, everything is called
> itpp*, except the actual lib file, which is called libitpp.so);
> - the package is named 'libitpp' in other distros, e.g. Ubuntu, openSUSE.
>
> So I think we have two options:
> 1) use 'itpp' as the name of the package, which corresponds to the
> include dir name, but not to the lib file name (libitpp.so); in this
> case we will have:
> %{_libdir}/libitpp.so*
> %{_includedir}/itpp
> %{_datadir}/itpp
> %{_docdir}/itpp (<- comes out from %doc directive)
>
> 2) use 'libitpp' as the name of the package, but leaving the include dir
> named as %{_includedir}/itpp (since all headers and documentation
> contain several #include <itpp/someheader.h>); in this case:
> %{_libdir}/libitpp.so*
> %{_includedir}/itpp
> %{_datadir}/itpp or %{_datadir}/libitpp (we can change this)
> %{_docdir}/libitpp (<- comes out from %doc directive)
>
> What do you think it is the best? (atm in the review we are using choice
> 2, but choice 1 seems more tidy).
>
> Marco
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