Perhaps announce at the RDKit meeting and make the full change for the first release of next year? We could also make it a CMAKE option to use/build the old names, but this would be a bit of work.
Cheers, Brian On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Greg Landrum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Nice suggestion. It seems logical to me, though I would probably go with > RDKit instead of RD as the prefix. > It's not a small change for people who are using the C++ libs without > cmake (I wouldn't change the names of the cmake projects, so if you're > using the RDKit cmake stuff nothing changes), but I suspect there aren't > that many of you guys. > > @Gianluca: what do you think? > > Anyone else have an opinion? > > -greg > > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Paul Emsley <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Greg, >> >> RDKit is becoming increasingly popular and is getting picked up by third >> parties, including >> the Linux distros. It seems to me that several RDKit library names are >> too generic (and >> hence confusing) for such an environment: I have in mind libs such as >> Alignment, Catalog, >> FileParsers (and others). I suggest that all RDKit libraries are >> prefixed with RD (like >> RDGeneral and RDInchi). I think that this should be done by at >> RDKit-Central rather than by >> patches applied by package maintainers at the distros. >> >> Yes, this will involve some fiddling for us C++ RDKit users, but worth >> it, I think. >> >> Paul. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Rdkit-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Rdkit-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss > >
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