Rename the mpack project to mlapack or similar to avoid clashes with other programs/libraries with the same name
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Hi,
unfortunately, the mpack project name is not unique among Linux distributions. Most Linux distributions already provide an mpack or libmpack package that serves totally different purposes. The first provides tools for encoding/decoding MIME messages and the second is a small binary serialization/RPC library.
To circumvent the problem of multiple packages with the same name, and competition with mpack.pc from libmpack I suggest a renaming of at least some files and locations to mlapack. I believe this would help to make the library more popular, especially when pre-compiled binary packages are available that do not interfere with others...
I've already set up a branch with the required changes (see https://github.com/RaumZeit/mpack/tree/dev_rename) but wanted to start a discussion on that matter before actually submitting a pull request.
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Hm I renamed to mplapack! thank you very much!
Please check v0.9.0 released today