On naming qml modules packages

Dmitry Shachnev mitya57 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 30 10:31:06 UTC 2014


Hi Lisandro,

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
<perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm so proposing to change the original naming scheme to:
>
> qml-module-{$module-name}[version]
>
> Where $module-name will be the lower-cased path replacing slashes with '-'.
> Examples:
>
> $QT_INSTALL_QML/foo/var/ would be packaged as qml-module-foo-var
>
> $QT_INSTALL_QML/foo/var.2/ would be packaged as qml-module-foo-var2
>
> $QT_INSTALL_QML/foo.2/var/ would be packaged as qml-module-foo2-var
>
> $QT_INSTALL_QML/foo2/var.2/ would be packaged as qml-module-foo2-var2
>
> What do you think of this? I plan to start packaging stuff (with the
> transitional packages required) either for 5.2.1 as soon as the transition
> finishes (we are almomst there) or for 5.3.0.

QtQuick1 is deprecated and not much matters, so I don't think we
should rename things just to prevent people from being confused by it.

But, anyway, your new package names are shorter (10-chars qml-module
vs 14-chars qtdeclarative5) and look nice, so I am fine with the
renaming.

--
Dmitry Shachnev



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