Package Name

[SylvainCorlay]

I am interested in making a package for the conda package manager (on conda-forge).

What would you like the name of the package to be?

The conan package name is jsonformoderncpp. The cmake project name is nlohmann_json.

[SylvainCorlay]

Quick bikeshedding question as I have the occasion: have you guys considered splitting into multiple headers?

[nlohmann]

I think nlohmann/json or so would be best as this is the name at Homebrew. Please have a look at the README for other package managers.

I do not plan to split the header for release, but we may split it for development.

[theodelrieu]

We could also release the multiple headers version, and keeping the single header release of course.

I think it would be a great addition, I've already split some headers in my work to help with compile times.

[SylvainCorlay]

What is the benefit of a single header?

[SylvainCorlay]

Regarding the package name, the conda documentation specifies

Conda package names are normalized, and may contain only lowercase alpha characters, numeric digits, underscores, hyphens, or dots

so it could either be

nlohmann_json or nlohmann.json.

[nlohmann]

The benefit is a trivial integration: just throw in one include and you're done.

About the name: I don't really have an opinion.

[SylvainCorlay]

The benefit is a trivial integration: just throw in one include and you're done.

ok. Thanks. a 15k-long single header is a bit scary too :)

I really love your modern C++ API following the idioms of the STL (PS: I am co-author of xtensor)... I have been banging my head when trying to do anything with rapidjson, and despite the claim that it is much faster, I am seriously considering dropping it.

Regarding the packaging, let me know if you come up with an idea. I cannot get to it before a couple of days. It would make sense for it to have the same name on conda / debian and all.

[nlohmann]

As the name is jsonformoderncpp for Conan, I think this should also be used for Conda.

[SylvainCorlay]

Sounds good! I was just going to propose nljson for a shorter version of nlohmann_json . There also seems to be a conan package with this name https://github.com/arnemertz/conan-nlJson.

Also, since headers typically fall under PREFIX/include/, I would have done something like PREFIX/include/nljson/json.hpp, and the include statement in most client code would then be #include "nljson/json.jpp".

[nlohmann]

There is also https://github.com/vthiery/conan-jsonformoderncpp.

[SylvainCorlay]

I like short 😄

[SylvainCorlay]

Btw, I am reading up your C++ standard proposal which looks great.

[nlohmann]

It's 99.9% the work of @mariokonrad. I did not find the time to work on it so far. But yes, he does a tremendous job.