Thanks Marcus for the clarifications. So basically the question is really how much we care about library compatibilities and whether we want users to be able to install multiple versions of libganglia/ganglia at the same time.
Something along the lines of, whether you want to allow libganglia.so.3.1.0 to be installed with libganglia.so.3.1.1 on the same system and whether they should/shouldn't be API/ABI compatible. Let's try to get a consensus on this soon so we can move forward with the spec file cleanup and move on to things more 'interesting' things :-) Thanks! Bernard On 10/24/07, Marcus Rueckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-19 11:22:53 -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > > Currently the SONAME for libganglia in trunk is: > > > > SONAME libganglia-3.1.0.so.0 > > > > Is there any particular reason why it is version specific? i.e. I > > suppose this allows the user to install multiple versions of > > libganglia with different versions, but is this really necessary? > > > > This would ultimately affect the naming of the binary package I guess: > > > > libganglia-3_1_0 vs just libganglia > > as the original naming proposal for the libganglia package came from my > patch i would like to mention the background of the name. > http://en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy > > first of all you can always call the package libganglia and put in it > what ever you want. > > we use the library packaging policy to allow multiple versions of the > same lib to be installed in parallel. as you see the library name is > affected by the SONAME. > > now if you would think about the soname we come to problems like api/abi > compatibility. > > thougths? > > darix > > -- > openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux > openSUSE is good for you > www.opensuse.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
