Ok, here's the issue in github: https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/issues/1036
These are famous last words, but it looks like adding this, and making it optional, may be trivial. Cmake is *awesome*. Let's move any technical discussion to github -greg On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Brian Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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