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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Library numbering
From:       Kalle Dalheimer <kalle () dalheimer ! de>
Date:       1999-05-04 20:06:31
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Leon Widdershoven wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was just admiring my /opt/kde-1.1/lib and /opt/kde-2.0/lib
> directory and noticed a wide variety of versions, specifically
> the kdelibraries.
> 
> I think this is kind of confusing, especially since a specific
> KDE version relies on specific kdelibs installed.
> So I would like to propose a new numbering scheme for kdelibs
> libraries, namely
> <libname>.<kdeversion>.<patchlevel>
> which would result in (for KDE 1.1.1)
> libkdecore.so.1.1.x
> 
> At the present, my kdelibs libs are at version 2.0, but I'm running
> KDE 1.1 (at least, I think). I think this is a little bit confusing.

For KDE 1.0 and 1.1, this was not possible. The libraries were
incompatible, and this requires the major version numbers to be
different.

I agree that we must find something obvious, though.

Kalle

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