On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Tobia Conforto <[email protected]> wrote: > > A developer who wants to build against chicken 3 or 4 will install the right > -dev package, which forces removal of the other versions. But this is a > developer-only process and a developer is supposed to either be working with > version 3 or with version 4 at a time. > > The purpose of soname is supporting end users who want to install and use > binary packages built against different major versions of the library, > alongside each other. >
Thank you, Tobia. Now I understand. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
