metainfo and cmake

Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org
Fri Oct 6 12:30:24 UTC 2023


On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 01:02:47PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote:
> > > I am using lyx2.3 and lyx2.4 in parallel installed. The problem will arise on
> > > installing lyx2.5 later.
> > > 
> > > Installing without using the suffix should be no problem for you (e.g. no change)
> > > My proposal would rename it to "LyX.metainfo.xml".
> > >   
> > 
> > This conflict is, I believe, also present in autoconf builds. The 
> > default there is to build without suffix. If I move to cmake for 
> > openSUSE packages, it's very likely I will continue to build without suffix.
> > 
> > Cor
> > 
> 
> Sure, good for you. But not for my use case.

It's not exactly great idea to ship differently named metainfo files
when using autoconf vs cmake.
Did you have at least investigated the implications of stripping org.lyx.
prefix in the default case?

Pavel


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