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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please!!:

- Move .kiface into $PREFIX/lib on linux, and the equivalent place on
  other systems

- Rename them from _foo.kiface to foo.so on linux and osx and foo.dll on
  windows

- Stop installing them with the executable bit set on linux! Presumably
  osx too. It's totally unnecessary for shared libs, and ESPECIALLY bad
  if they're in $PREFIX/bin.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 07:49:36AM +1300, Simon Wells wrote:
> As the kifaces are just shared objects/libraries is there any reason
> they must be named .kiface instead of .so (or other name used on
> system for dynamic libs), It seems to just be making things more
> difficult and confusing when people see .kiface and have no ideaa what
> it means.
> 
> These should really not be place in bin/ on linux systems either as
> its really not designed for that sort of thing
> 
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