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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Library numbering
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date:       1999-05-05 10:37:54
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Kalle Dalheimer wrote:
> 
> 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.

kdecore1.1.so.2
kdecore2.0.so.7
?

Greetings, Stephan

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