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List:       kde-frameworks-devel
Subject:    Re: further coinstallability
From:       Kevin Ottens <ervin () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-11-28 6:28:15
Message-ID: 2937739.oJ8UVljVuV () wintermute
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On Wednesday 27 November 2013 22:43:04 Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> 2013/11/26 Kevin Ottens <ervin@kde.org>:
> > On Tuesday 26 November 2013 15:04:09 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> >> Le samedi 23 novembre 2013 18:19:53 Jonathan Riddell a écrit :
> >> > some libs with an soname of 5 in kdelibs4 keep an soname of 5 in KF5. 
> >> > I
> >> > found libkhtml.so.5 which is now libKHtml.so.5 which will clash for
> >> > package names which are all lower case.  There may be others.
> > 
> > Ah damned... This problem solved itself since all the libraries with a +1
> > version are gone... all except one in fact. Really overlooked khtml there.
> > :-/> 
> >> Maybe the name of the lib could be changed so that the KF5 version of
> >> KHTML
> >> becomes libKhtml5.so?
> > 
> > Yes, let's do that for khtml.
> > 
> >> This would be similar to what Qt5 libs do: they all start with "libQt5".
> > 
> > Makes me wonder, is it something we'd like to do too? Having all our libs
> > named libKf5Foo? I don't think I have an opinion either way.
> 
> Windows has no sonames, and in kdelibs4 the files are called
> khtml.dll, etc. with no version number. I think they should get one
> (eg. khtml5.dll), for the same reason that sonames are
> useful/important in Unix.

That'd be an argument to make them all libKf5Foo then... Someone feels like 
looking into that?

Regards.
=2D- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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