On Donnerstag, 9. März 2023 16:58:40 CET Heiko Becker wrote: > while looking at a MR for libkcddb (part of Gear) I wondered if the > transition > from Qt5/KF5 to Qt6/KF6 could be used to get rid of the KF5/6 prefix in > target > names and CMake config files for libraries that aren't acutally part of > Frameworks.
+1 > Changing that obviously involves some (temporary) compatibility concerns, > but that doesn't play any role with the move to Qt6/KF6. So I suggest to > use the chance and get rid of said prefix with the upcoming porting. > > One example where this was done already some time ago is libkgapi: > https://invent.kde.org/pim/libkgapi/-/commit/8d15e66f1ed87a52377111735e24888 > b7f924a49 This is a particular bad example because it changes the name of the Qt5 version breaking all existing Qt5-based users instead of just fixing the name for Qt6/KF6. (Yes, this KDE PIM library isn't public API, so it doesn't hurt external users. But it has cost me many hours compiling libraries from source where I previously could always use the distribution packages). Please don't follow this annoying example. Regards, Ingo
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