Excerpts from Maciej Bliziński's message of Mon Jul 18 07:03:02 -0400 2011:
Hi Maciej, > The questions discussed were e.g. how to compile against an older > version of the library. One idea was to keep header and .so files in > separate directories; another idea was to have incompatible dev > packages and that the choice of the version would be made by > installing or uninstalling specific dev packages. I don't recall (and haven't googled the archive) whether we discussed using alternatives as a mechanism that could default to newest .so but be toggled to older versions as required...This would allow side-by-side installation of the -dev packages. For buildfarm use, it could be a little unpleasant if it's switched for building one package and then affects other users. That might be reason enough to discard the idea. > What are your thoughts about it? Would you like to see the proposal > integrated into our shared libraries packaging policy? The less we have in special-prefix areas the better, as far as I'm concerned. If we do this, we'll need to tackle (as a separate item) the header files, etc too. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
