On 2008-04-03 20:20+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-03 10:51]: > >> However, to help the PLplot upstream developers make the decision, please >> answer my question about how much practical Debian packaging work is >> required by you to do a major version bump for each of the libraries I >> mentioned. I assume its fairly negligible since major version changes do >> happen from time to time for most libraries, but if that assumption is not >> correct, let us know. > > The actual amount of work for adapting the package for the new version major > number is not very high. It involves essentially changing the name of the > package. > > On the other hand, bumps in major numbers normally imply library transition > procedures, which are painful sometimes, but should not be the case of the > PLplot and LASi libraries (they have almost no reverse-dependencies). > > That said, I find it very strange that the whole world *_has_* to adapt to > Mac OS X. I have never heard about this before in the Free Software > world... > > The fact that different OSes have different soname versions for the same > version of a given version of a library is something quite common. For > instance, for the same --version-info value, libtool produces different > library versions in Linux and HPUX.
Thanks, Rafael, for your response to my question and your other valuable input. I hope we make the final decision fairly soon, but I am also waiting for further input from the Mac OS X POV. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
