Re: [Plplot-devel] Need advice on Mac OS X compatibility version for libraries

2008-04-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-04-03 10:23+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote: * Alan W. Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-04-02 16:30]: Assuming this really is a serious issue on Mac OS X, the obvious solution is to deal with it by bumping the major version number of the above libraries (and libLASi) from 0 to 1. I would

Re: [Plplot-devel] Need advice on Mac OS X compatibility version for libraries

2008-04-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On behalf of Rafael who is not subscribed to this list. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Need advice on Mac OS X compatibility version for libraries

2008-04-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Need advice on Mac OS X compatibility version for libraries

2008-04-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I just learned from some CMake list traffic that the CMake developers are struggling with this Mac OS X issue at the moment. It appears they may end up eventually copying the libtools cross-platform scheme for dealing with library versioning, see the on-going discussion at

[Plplot-devel] Need advice on Mac OS X compatibility version for libraries

2008-04-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Although Rafael no longer subscribes to the plplot-devel list, I am CCing him because he used to be our expert on library version numbers, and he is still helping Andrew with the Debian packaging of PLplot. It has just now come to my attention that the major version number for some of our