[csw-maintainers] commentary on shared library naming proposal

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Wed Nov 24 17:47:26 CET 2010


On 11/24/10, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> Use only suffixes from a limited and well defined set, such as {gcc}.
> But, is there other use case for this? If this is the only use case,
> we can use a "-g" suffix, e.g., CSWlibfoo1-g
>

we have an existing de-facto standard to add (*gcc) to package names,
in multiple use cases. I think for clarity, we should continue our
standard behaviour there rather than attempting to "save" 3 chars.


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