On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 10:46 -0500, Pat Suwalski wrote:

> Attached is a patch that renames libtidy to libclutter-tidy.
> 
> The rationale for this is that there is already a libtidy, so building a
> package with a shared object can conflict. 

no, it can't. the W3C tidy library shared object is called tidy.so;
also, there's a reason for tidy to use pkg-config, and it's not just for
cosmetic value.

> It would be very nice if every user of the tidy library didn't have to
> rename it.

users of tidy should copy it inside their project, since we never made
*any* guarantee on *any* kind of stability -- ABI, or API-wise. we also
never made a release. Tidy is a "toy" toolkit.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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