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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Sub-library version numbers
From: Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date: 2002-06-07 1:14:31
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On Don, 06 Jun 2002, aleXXX wrote:
> I don't think that it is a good thing that I can have three libraries named
> libkdeui.3.0.0, libkdeui.3.0.0 and libkdeui.3.0.0 and that I can't simply
> exchange one with the other, since e.g. 3.0.0 from 2.0 doesn't provide all
> the features 3.0.0 from 2.2 provides.
>
> Another advantage of the version numbers would be that this would make it
> much easier to find out which version of KDE is installed, especially in the
> case if something is messed up and KDE or X don't even start.
You do know that you can't have two libs with the same major version number
installed at the same time anyway ?
not changing the .so-name is taking care of this problem, although in a
brutal way. However, it seems somehow effective still.
Dirk
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