Hi guys, e.g. related to QtSerialPort we can try to rewrite the libudev linking dynamically.. I'm think.. Probably we will be in time to 5.2... :)
Best regards, Denis 22.10.2013, 11:28, "Knoll Lars" <[email protected]>: > On 22.10.13 09:24, "Thiago Macieira" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On terça-feira, 22 de outubro de 2013 07:01:22, Knoll Lars wrote: >>>> There are two major versions of libudev in use in major distros: >>>> libudev.so.0 >>>> and libudev.so.1. The new one has been in use for about a year, so we >>> can >>>> expect the need to support both versions for the next few years of >>> builds. >>> >>> Isn't the old version still available on new distroibutions for >>> backwards >>> compatibility? In that case we could simply use the old version for the >>> time being. >> No, not really. If a library isn't needed by anything else and there are >> no >> extraordinary reasons for keeping it (like it happens for the LSB >> packages), >> the library isn't provided at all. >> >> At least for Fedora 19, no package provides libudev.so.0. If I wanted to >> install it, I'd have to load the package from Fedora 17. > > So much for Linux distributions keeping binary compatibility. Not > providing the package means you break every 3rd party app that needs > libudev and doesn't come as part of the package management. > > Lars > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
