Hi Ben,
On 18/01/16 21:25, Ben Roberts wrote:
Hi,
At our facility a colleague of mine recently prepared some custom EB recipes
for FFmpeg (https://www.ffmpeg.org). A little later I found easyconfigs for
ffmpeg [sic]. I imagine case is important in Easybuild, and it’s at least good
to be consistent. It seems the official name is FFmpeg. Is it worth updating
the name, or better on the whole to stick with the status quo?
Typically, we try and stick to the 'official' software name, indeed.
Sometimes it's hard to tell, but here it's pretty clear: it should be
'FFmpeg' (cfr. https://www.ffmpeg.org/about.html).
So, yes, changing it to FFmpeg makes sense to me. I see this as a bug fix.
This has some impact though, especially because 'ffmpeg' is currently
used as a dependency for 'animation' and 'OpenCV'.
In the PR where the current 'ffmpeg' are changed to use 'FFmpeg'
instead, the dependency specs will need to be updated too (if not,
Jenkins will complain about failing unit tests).
The only issue with this rename is that this potentially impacts
easyconfig files that are not included in the central easyconfigs
repository: if they use 'ffmpeg' now, they will need to be changed to
use 'FFmpeg' (unless the required 'ffmpeg' easyconfigs are also
available locally).
In this case, the impact is likely low though...
regards,
Kenneth
