[MPlayer-users] pre-existing libdvdread

[Nico Sabbi]

On Thursday 06 November 2008 15:33:49 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 06 November 2008 at 15:22, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> [...]
>
> > something is wrong with the current naming system: dvdread is
> > only a library thus it should be renamed to libdvdread (and
> > installed as such), as it was for a short period of time, until
> > Dominik renamed it for the sake of backwards compatibility
> > (maybe, I don't remember).
>
> Yes, that was the exact reason.
>
> > We should do something disruptive and call it lib<something>
> > consistently
>
> Well, consider this: when you link to a library, you use -lfoo and
> not -llibfoo. I'm not against renaming the directory in which the
> headers are installed, but in that case we should rename our
> libdvd* forks, too. Maybe call them libdvd{read,nav}2 ?

libdvdread2 is fine, libdvdnav2 is not: it was one of JCD's pet
projects that I removed from svn long ago

>
> Regards,
> R.
>
> PS. I think this discussion should be moved to dvdnav-discuss list.

I agree