Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Friday 2016-07-15 15:30, Pekka Paalanen wrote: >> >OTOH, would adding a new libweston MAJOR in an already stable and >> >released binary distribution be absolutely forbidden? It would by >> >definition not affect anything the distribution was released with, >> >unless libweston's dependencies

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:53:27 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2016-07-13 13:54, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > >I think Quentin raised a good point, though. In source-based > >distros, well, in Gentoo at least which I use almost exclusively, > >there are no

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Thursday 2016-07-14 17:33, Emil Velikov wrote: > >The keypoint here is that one should _not_ need to uninstall >libdb-4_5-devel in order to have libdb-4_8-devel and vice-versa. >This is what parallel installability is all about (afaict). It is indeed what it is about. But is it _necessary_ to

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On 13 July 2016 at 15:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Wednesday 2016-07-13 13:54, Pekka Paalanen wrote: >> >>I think Quentin raised a good point, though. In source-based >>distros, well, in Gentoo at least which I use almost exclusively, >>there are no separate -devel packages.

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Wednesday 2016-07-13 13:54, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > >I think Quentin raised a good point, though. In source-based >distros, well, in Gentoo at least which I use almost exclusively, >there are no separate -devel packages. A package is, abstractly, merely a selected subset of `make install`

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 14:34:28 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Sunday 2016-07-10 13:13, Quentin Glidic wrote: > > > > If we install only one .pc file: > > - You cannot develop against an old version. > > I do not feel that is true. If you have Berkeley DB 4.5 in tarball

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Monday 2016-07-11 16:44, Emil Velikov wrote: >> Without pkgconfig supporting some new alias tag (hint, hint) to cover >> such a case, >No idea what such a "alias tag" is supposed to do/look like. Do you >have examples ? Proposed concept would be to make pkgconfig recognize a new Alias

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On 11 July 2016 at 17:58, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Monday 2016-07-11 16:44, Emil Velikov wrote: http://ometer.com/parallel.html. I would strongly recommend giving it a look. >>> >>> I read it now, and I do not buy it - at least not for 2016 standards. >>> According to

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Monday 2016-07-11 16:44, Emil Velikov wrote: >>>http://ometer.com/parallel.html. I would strongly recommend giving it >>>a look. >> >> I read it now, and I do not buy it - at least not for 2016 standards. >> According to the page, it was written in 2002, and I can confirm that >> the situation

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On 9 July 2016 at 17:26, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 17:45:24 +0100 > Emil Velikov wrote: > >> On 7 July 2016 at 10:46, Pekka Paalanen wrote: >> > On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 16:25:54 +0100 >> > Emil Velikov

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On 10 July 2016 at 13:23, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sunday 2016-07-10 12:46, Emil Velikov wrote: >>> PKG_CHECK_EXISTS([gtk-3.0], [PKG_CHECK_MODULES([gtk], [gtk-3.0])], [ >>> ...repeat the fun... >>> ])] >>> >>Yes, it's one line of fun for each version that you want to be

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Sunday 2016-07-10 13:13, Quentin Glidic wrote: > > If we install only one .pc file: > - You cannot develop against an old version. I do not feel that is true. If you have Berkeley DB 4.5 in tarball form, you can build and `make install` it. Provided the SONAME is different (it is;

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Sunday 2016-07-10 12:46, Emil Velikov wrote: >> PKG_CHECK_EXISTS([gtk-3.0], [PKG_CHECK_MODULES([gtk], [gtk-3.0])], [ >> ...repeat the fun... >> ])] >> >Yes, it's one line of fun for each version that you want to be >compatible with. It's not ideal, but it's a price to pay, for keeping >things

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On 10/07/2016 12:11, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Saturday 2016-07-09 18:24, Pekka Paalanen wrote: First, what kind of parallel installability is sought? * just runtime * parallel development environment (like what e.g. libabw, librevenge.. do) everything that is about libweston including

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On 10 July 2016 at 11:11, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Saturday 2016-07-09 18:24, Pekka Paalanen wrote: >>> >>> First, what kind of parallel installability is sought? >>> >>> * just runtime >>> * parallel development environment (like what e.g. libabw, >>> librevenge.. do) >>

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Saturday 2016-07-09 18:24, Pekka Paalanen wrote: >> >> First, what kind of parallel installability is sought? >> >> * just runtime >> * parallel development environment (like what e.g. libabw, >> librevenge.. do) > >everything that is about libweston including development enviroment >has

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 05:19:26 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Thursday 2016-07-07 11:46, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > >> >> +AC_SUBST([LIBWESTON_VERSION], > >> >> [libweston_major_version.libweston_minor_version.libweston_patch_version]) > >> >> > >> > > >> > That makes

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Thursday 2016-07-07 11:46, Pekka Paalanen wrote: >> >> +AC_SUBST([LIBWESTON_VERSION], >> >> [libweston_major_version.libweston_minor_version.libweston_patch_version]) >> >> >> > >> > That makes packaging a pain. Although the whole libweston (supposedly >> > parallel-installable) is already

Re: Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On 7 July 2016 at 10:46, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 16:25:54 +0100 > Emil Velikov wrote: > >> On 4 July 2016 at 15:35, Quentin Glidic >> wrote: >> > On 04/07/2016 16:23, Emil Velikov wrote: >> >> >>

Weston versioning (Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc)

On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 16:25:54 +0100 Emil Velikov wrote: > On 4 July 2016 at 15:35, Quentin Glidic > wrote: > > On 04/07/2016 16:23, Emil Velikov wrote: > >> > >> From: Emil Velikov > >> > >> Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc

On 4 July 2016 at 15:35, Quentin Glidic wrote: > On 04/07/2016 16:23, Emil Velikov wrote: >> >> From: Emil Velikov >> >> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov >> --- >> configure.ac | 1 + >>

[PATCH weston 6/6] libweston: do not use weston version in libweston.pc

From: Emil Velikov Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov --- configure.ac | 1 + libweston/libweston.pc.in | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index be40f10..46b61ae 100644