[ITK] [ITK-dev] HDF5 library naming

[Matt McCormick]

Hi David,

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 12:58 PM, David Cole via Insight-developers
<insight-developers at itk.org> wrote:
> I see the difference in release and debug library names for the HDF5
> libraries has already been discussed about a year ago:
>
>     https://itk.org/pipermail/insight-developers/2016-October/024995.html
>
> However, the answer seems unsatisfactory to me.
>
> Why can't ITK install these libraries named according to its own
> convention for 3rd party libraries...? (i.e. -- why is "upstream did
> it that way and we just updated to that" acceptable as a response
> here?)

Because we do not have infinite resources to maintain forks and
support all build systems.


> I use a non-CMake build system consuming ITK libraries where it is
> much easier to deal with libraries named consistently (and using the
> same names for debug and release builds). Especially when you are
> dealing with static libraries only, there does not seem to be a good
> reason to allow this deviation to persist long term.
>
> Would a proposed patch correcting the naming (conforming to ITK
> version naming convention like other ITK 3rd party libs, and named the
> same in Release and Debug) be accepted?

A patch would be accepted assuming that responsibility will be taken
by the author to maintain the fork in the future.

Thanks,
Matt
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