Renaming avogenerators

ghutchis · September 16, 2025, 3:53pm

There’s been some inconsistency in naming with the input generators code.

I named the repository avogenerators because avogadrogenerators was just too long to keep typing and there were already a lot of avogadro___ repositories.

OTOH, the directory in the main repository has been avogadrogenerators.

Eisuke has been hard at work at a variety of build updates on GitHub and proposed cleaning up the mix and using avogenerators everywhere. (Which I’d prefer, because .. short)

Any thoughts?

avogenerators
avogadrogenerators
something else
don’t have an opinion

0 voters

github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs

build: update path to avogadrogenerators

master ← e-kwsm:avogenerators

opened 02:06AM - 15 Sep 25 UTC

e-kwsm

+2 -2

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matterhorn103 · September 17, 2025, 3:44am

There’s actually four naming conventions across all the repos:

avogadro* – avogadrolibs, avogadroapp, avogadrodata
avo* – just avogenerators
avogadro-* – avogadro-i18n, avogadro-commands, avogadro-cclib
Nothing Avogadro-related in the name at all – molecules, fragments, crystals

So I think consistency in the repo names is a lost cause anyway

Besides which, I think it’d be a lot of unnecessary disruption if the URL of the upstream repository changed.

I do however very much agree with having the submodule match the repository name, so it follows that my opinion is that changing the submodule to avogenerators is the best option.