[Buildroot] [RFC 1/3] Rename package mpc to libmpc

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 21 18:19:21 UTC 2014


Hello,

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:30:03 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> On 07/21/2014 11:25 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 
> > That being said, I would prefer to find a different name for the mpc
> > package (mpd client) rather than renaming existing packages.
> 
> +1
> Renaming it is potentially very problematic for people that use mpc
> (multiprecision library) for their own projects, mpc would be a
> completely different thing now and we can't make it legacy either since
> there would be a new mpc.
> Just call it mpclient and use a different bool IMHO.

Agreed. "mpclient" sounds like a good alternative.

Thanks,

Thomas
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