I am saying that in the past 10 years of programming I found that
there is NO standard, even within an Operating System itself. Some
projects like a combined build of debug and release libraries with a
"d" suffix on ALL platforms (Qt) even though OS X would have then put
"_debug". Another library, ITK, _really_ wants you to have distinct
Debug and Release installation locations. They don't use ANY
decorations. Boost, well, they went slap happy with their decorations
and don't follow ANY standard (either perceived or real).
The point is that if you want to integrate into any of those
environments you better understand _their_ naming conventions, whether
those conventions integrate with your chosen build environment and
whether you are going to perpetuate someone else's "standard" or not.
I'll leave the philosophical debate for somewhere else. After
considering ALL of those factors (plus any thing else you deem
important) then you make your decision about whether or not to
decorate your libraries. Having the choice to do so is what CMake
offers. To YOU, the default (no decorations) is WRONG. To the rest of
us, the default is RIGHT.
Your solution is valid. I will give you that. But the Default you
propose is still wrong to the rest of us. If your solution was
implemented but had a default of NO decoration you would still
complain. As it is now CMake offers the functionality you want.
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Mike Jackson www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer mike.jack...@bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software Dayton, Ohio
On Jul 29, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jack...@bluequartz.net> wrote:
Because as a library developer YOU are responsible for making sure
your
library integrates well with the operating system you intend to
deploy on
it. Each Operating System has rules according to Person1, Person2,
Person3.... PersonN. It is up to YOU as the DEVELOPER of the
library to pick
something that makes sense for your project. And just because it
makes sense
for YOU does not mean it makes sense for MY project.
To be honest I've no idea what you're trying to say here.
If you don't want name decoration then you don't enable it, it's so
simple...
Olaf
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