Re: package name conventions?

2004-11-18 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20041118T094050+1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: From what I can see, the package wouldn't provide anything useful at runtime, which is the intent of lib* package (IMO), and a lib*-dev package is for providing build-time stuff for a lib* package, so straight up pstreams seems like a winner to

package name conventions?

2004-11-17 Thread Antonio S. de A. Terceiro
Hello all, I'm finishing a package for PStreams (pstreams.sf.net), and the name I gave at first for the package was pstreams. But maybe the correct name should be libpstreams. Well, PStreams is in fact a library, in the sense it's a set of reusable code. But since it's implemented as C++

Re: package name conventions?

2004-11-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:37:16PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Antonio S. de A. Terceiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.11.17.2330 +0100]: libfactory++-dev - C++ template factory framework ... that this is my software, which I named libfactory because I did not know better. It's

Re: package name conventions?

2004-11-17 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20041118T094050+1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: From what I can see, the package wouldn't provide anything useful at runtime, which is the intent of lib* package (IMO), and a lib*-dev package is for providing build-time stuff for a lib* package, so straight up pstreams seems like a winner to

package name conventions?

2004-11-17 Thread Antonio S. de A. Terceiro
Hello all, I'm finishing a package for PStreams (pstreams.sf.net), and the name I gave at first for the package was pstreams. But maybe the correct name should be libpstreams. Well, PStreams is in fact a library, in the sense it's a set of reusable code. But since it's implemented as C++

Re: package name conventions?

2004-11-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Antonio S. de A. Terceiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.11.17.2330 +0100]: I'm finishing a package for PStreams (pstreams.sf.net), and the name I gave at first for the package was pstreams. But maybe the correct name should be libpstreams. I should note that I asked the question as part

Re: package name conventions?

2004-11-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:37:16PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Antonio S. de A. Terceiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.11.17.2330 +0100]: libfactory++-dev - C++ template factory framework ... that this is my software, which I named libfactory because I did not know better. It's