From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: library versioning debian-devel thread for those interested Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:33:58 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87adj446nd.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040164626 18481 80.91.224.249 (17 Dec 2002 22:37:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18OQKm-0004np-00 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:37:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OQIF-0000j3-05 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:34:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OQHw-0000OT-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:34:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OQHt-0000HH-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:34:06 -0500 Original-Received: from n66644228.ipcdsl.net ([66.64.4.228] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OQHn-0008TQ-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:34:00 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E50169E0 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:33:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C4007C577A; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:33:58 -0600 (CST) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1832 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1832 There have been a couple of quite informative replies to my question. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200212/thrd3.html Search for "library versioning". I haven't finished thinking about the problem, so I don't have any conclusions yet, but unsurprisingly, it looks like there may not really be a "solution". However with enough care and cooperation, it may be possible to avoid some of the really nasty failure cases. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel