On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 09:11 +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 18:21 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Do you think you could put the "or" into the package name; > > > e.g. "coinorutils"? > > > > > > When I read the title, I assumed it was related to the Coin libraries > > > (www.coin3d.org), which are in Debian as libcoin40-runtime, etc. > > > > I learned about coin3d when some coin3d user ended up asking questions > > on the coin-or mailinglist. Yes, great name clash. Thinking about it - > > it seems to be a good idea to do prefix all package names with coinor, > > e.g. coinor-utils, coinor-clp, coinor-osi etc, though I don't think it > > will help the confusion much as long as the coin3d packages have a > > generic coin name :( > > I guess one of them will need to change their SONAMEs, because -lCoin will > definitely cause trouble (note that for some reason, both coin3d and coin-or > decided to use uppercase library names...). > > If it's first come first serve, coin-or will be the one to change.
Well we are lucky in this case, as the lib in coin-utils is named libCoinUtils and coin's clp libclp - so no name clash :-) > BTW, Soeren, if you need any help at this or any later point in > packaging/maintaining COIN-OR, please feel free to ping me. I've mainly been > using COIN-OR, but liked it a lot, and seeing it packaged would take some > burden > off of some of my software projects. Good to know. The plan is to first get the essential coin-or packages into debian and then wait and hope that they switch to some less conflicting licensing (such that osi etc may also link to glpk). Soeren -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
