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Allow setting name_prefix project-wide

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#2,467 opened on Oct 10, 2017

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Description

Instead of setting it for each individual library in a project, which will end up being very verbose for projects like gstreamer plugins, it would be nice to be able to set it as a project option, maybe prefixed with "library_".

Individual libraries could override the project-wide setting by passing "name_prefix" as currently possible.

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Research direction
Look into Meson's project options handling in the source code, specifically how library specific name prefix is currently set, and design a way to add a project wide option that can be overridden per library.
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