# To subscribers of the xforms list from David Scriven <davidwriter@yahoo.com> :
--- Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
<Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr> wrote: > # To
subscribers of the xforms list from
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr> :
>
> >>>>> "David" == David Scriven
> <davidwriter@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> David> # To subscribers of the xforms list from
> David Scriven
> David> <davidwriter@yahoo.com> : One thing I
> think should be fixed is
> David> the naming of the libraries and include
> files
>
> I am not sure we want to do that now. While the
> naming of libs is
> indeed inconsistent, we do not want the new
> version to break programs
> which already work with the old one.
>
Thats why I suggested that old names and links
be retained so that nothing would be broken
ie. glcanvas.h
would now contain:
#warning "This header is obsolete - use
formsGL.h"
#include "formsGL.h"
and formsGL.h would contain the present contents
of glcanvas.h
Nothing would break - you would just get a
warning message on compilation.
Similarly flimage.so would contain a link
(via ln -s) to formsimg.so which would link
to formsimg.so.1, etc, and flimage.a could
link to formsimg.a. Thus no legacy programs
would break.
Whether this is worth the minimal effort reqd
I leave to others, but my request comes from
experience - people coming to me with problems
in compilation & linking of pgms written in
XForms (which I had recommended to them) and
finding that I had to dig around for the correct
includes and libraries. Note that some libary
names changed recently - with the advent of
version 1.0
DS
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