On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 20:53:32 +0200, Danny Backx wrote:
>All,
>
>We've been installing more than one version of LessTif for a while now,
>to be able to work with 2.* while still allow linking applications
>against the older library versions. (Some apps come dynamically linked
>against 1.*, or at least they used to.)
>
>The question now is whether we can drop this multi-version thing ?
>
>The reason is very simple : libtool doesn't really support it
>(I'm not saying it should, it's a silly feature probably).
>
>So can we drop multiple installations and install 2.1 by default ?
>
>Opinions welcome !
Ok, first a question:
what happens if we would simply try to install two versions
in the same directory?
One argument against the 2.1 default version was:
our 2.x tree as it was called not too long ago was known
to be incomplete. Nowadays still the 2.0 (won't be ever completed
probably) and 2.1 trees lack functionality and perhaps
couple of interfaces (we had to one this week, some
definitions to Xm.h earlier since 0.93.0 even to
ensure that all 2.x applications _link_, not even
talking about _work_ ...)
>From my point of view it was quite unlikely that we would be
able to maintain binary compatibility during the further
development of the 2.x stuff. So I proposed to use the
2.0 tree as a default, and once 2.1 is frozen move on to it.
(We should CC: to the OpenGroup. They might consider what
all those people could have in the hours they've spent either
directly on LessTif or getting apps to work with it.
Anyone who could do this?)
---
Alexander Mai
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