On 2014-01-24 15:07-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2014-01-24 12:40-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: > >> On 01/23/2014 08:01 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >>> >>> @Orion and Andrew: I am especially interested in your comments on the >>> implications of effectively dropping the "d" suffix for most of our >>> distributed library names. >>> >> >> This just came to me, the pkg-config name has the "d" suffix. This is >> probably a bigger deal as projects would need to change to use "plplot" >> instead of "plplotd". Still not insurmountable, but a big deal. > > And another change that might be a big deal is that the driversd > install location will become drivers. So if we decide to go ahead > with this "d" suffix removal breakage we should list all these file > and directory name changes in the OFFICIAL NOTICES right at the top of > the Release notes so only users who skip reading those notices will > get surprised. > > So I agree the "d" suffix removal is a big deal, but the benefits of > having non-confusing library names are big as well. Thus, I would > rather go through this pain this year rather than attempting to do the > same thing 10 years from now.
Since there was no further discussion of this important change, I have done the deed (as of revision 13065) including an official notice in our (forthcoming) release notes. This change has only received light testing (consisting of running the test_interactive and test_noninteractive targets in the build tree), but so far so good. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
