Hi, On 16 August 2012 04:31, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> wrote: > > It's not a FPC problem, it is a linux problem that apps are not > crossdistribution distributable.
My applications ARE all cross-dirstro capable. And they are damn good at running on new and old distros. eg: I have compiled an fpGUI app 6 months ago on Ubuntu 10.04 (32-bit), and ran that app without problems on a 10 year old distro (SUSE 9.0). That should be good enough for most don't you think. Also says a lot about your "fear" regarding Linux library API/Naming/Versioning changes. > Creating a lot of drama if you see a > minor discrepancy here 6 months after release won't benefit anyone. Coming from someone that admitted that they don't release any commercial FPC based applications and only work with Delphi in commercial environment.... Excuse me if I take whatever you say with a large pinch of salt. > months ago, we'll just rehash this charade in 9 months for some other > library where a new version came out or where naming changed. Library naming seem to be the ONLY consistent thing here. From what I have seen, and what Jonas mentioned, there are well established rules for naming libraries and versioning. So it should be perfectly fine and cross-distro compatible to look for libfbclient.so.2 - which has been the latest Firebird major version for a few years now. If Firebird 3.0 gets released, ibconnection.pp must be upgraded anyway, then the searched library name could be updated at the same time. There is no problem in this working. > Because it is the _only_ fixed point in this whole mess. This sounds all > very smart now, but once .2 will start changing you can explain people how > to fix everything so that designtime components keep working. (and Once again very vague. What do you mean by changing.... a new v3 Firebird release? In that case libfbclient.so could just as easily point to the .3 library, and any applications which only support 2.x firebird might not work. As Michael stated, unlike other database vendors, Firebird is pretty good at keeping backward/forwards API compatibility, so in theory the v2.x firebird apps should work, but one never knows when it comes to major version number changes. Minor version number changes is a whole different game. Anyway, why bother arguing with someone that doesn't distribute FPC based apps at all. FPC might only be a hobby to you, but for others it is there bread and butter. We need to support apps as best we can, and with that make them run as easily as possible on all supported platforms. This is what I am trying to do here. Anyway, Michael van Canneyt seems to have agreed with my suggestion (if I understood his email correctly) of adding '.2' to the Linux-only library name. Michael is a lot more involved in FPC database work than you. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal