[Nfd-dev] Revised plan for library renaming

[Davide Pesavento]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Alex Afanasyev
<alexander.afanasyev at ucla.edu> wrote:
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> On Apr 23, 2014, at 4:53 PM, Davide Pesavento <davidepesa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Alex Afanasyev
>> <alexander.afanasyev at ucla.edu> wrote:
>>> We will try to do the change with a transition period, when existing application will still be able to compile against ndn-cxx (there will be additional symlinks created for include, lib, and pkg-config files), but all known applications needs to be updated ASAP after the renaming is complete in the following way:
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>> Are you going to release the first version with the compatibility symlinks?
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> Honestly, not sure about this and we shall make a decision.  If we can quickly update all applications (NFD, repo, NLSR, ping, others?), then this will not go into the release.  Personally, I prefer not to add symlinks in the initial release.
>

Agreed, but it also depends on the available timeframe. Aren't we
already late with the first release?

Instead of adding symlinks, we could freeze the current ndn-cpp-dev
codebase and keep the github repo and docs so that people can still
fetch and build the old library. After a while the docs are removed
and the ndn-cpp-dev repo is changed to redirect to ndn-cxx. How does
that sound?