[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Packaging getfem 4.0.0

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le lundi 28 septembre 2009 à 20:06 +0200, Konstantinos Poulios a écrit :
> oops, I missed to send my last mails to the list.
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Konstantinos Poulios <logari81 at googlemail.com>
> Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Packaging getfem 4.0.0
> To: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>
> 
> 
> > OK, I understand why you did that but it is the name of the project
> > itself which matter. Not the soname.
> > For me, it should be called getfem++ since it is the main name used on
> > the main page:
> > http://home.gna.org/getfem/getfem_intro.html
> >
> > My point of view is that having two names (getfem & getfem++) let the
> > user believe that there is a C implementation and a C++ one of the
> > library (it is how I understood it first).
> >
> >
> >> After the release of version 4 of getfem I also removed the "++"
> >> suffix from the source package name, since in the last upstream
> >> release they removed this suffix from the name of their tar.gz file
> >> too.
> > Are you the upstream developer ? :)
> >
> 
> hmm, that hasn't been clear enough from my part.
> 
> Originally I had suggested in #453065 the following naming layout:
> 
> - getfem++ : source package
> - libgetfem4 : main lib
> - libgetfem-dbg : debugging package
> - libgetfem-dev : dev-package
> - libgmm-dev (or libgmm++-dev): gmm package
> - python-getfem : python interface
> 
> after the release 4.0 of getfem I modified my naming conventions to:
> 
> - getfem : source package
> - libgetfem4 : main lib
> - libgetfem-dbg : debugging package
> - libgetfem-dev : dev-package
> - libgmm-dev : gmm package
> - python-getfem : python interface
> 
> which is our current status.
> 
> What you suggest would be something like:
> 
> - getfem++ : source package
> - libgetfem4 : main lib
> - libgetfem-dbg : debugging package
> - libgetfem++-dev : dev-package
> - libgmm++-dev : gmm package
> - python-getfem : python interface
> 
> Is that right?

Pretty much
I would change:
libgetfem4 => libgetfem++4
(and probably
python-getfem => python-getfem++)

My point is just that you should not change the project upstream name.
It is not your call to make.

Sylvestre