[ITK] [ITK-dev] HDF5 library naming

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi,

What about patching the upstream system to allow configuration of library
output name and install dir ?

Hth
Jc

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick at kitware.com>
wrote:

> 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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