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.
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