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From: Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>
Subject: Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?
Date: 12 Nov 2002 22:10:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87heemv6j3.fsf@alice.rotty.yi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xy7el9qr503.fsf@linnaeus.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-shoot-me>

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@kvast.blakulla.net> writes:

> Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm working on the packaging of 1.6 for Debian, and I wondered if
> > anyone would oppose dropping the minor revision number from guile's
> > working directory.  The argument against would be that it isn't as
> > specific and would prevent you from having two minor revisions of
> > guile installed in the same place at the same time, but you can't do
> > that anyway since their library, binary, etc. names would collide.
> 
> Hmm... shouldn't the libraries from different minor versions of Guile
> have different version numbers (bumbed between versions) and therefore
> be possible to install in parallel?
> 
No, shared library SONAME should only change when a
binary-incompatible change happens, which shouldn't be the case with
stable guile versions, or am i wrong here?

> Regarding the binary: How about using similar conventions as for
> emacs: guile symlinked to guile1.6.1
> 
Hmm, I wonder if people really want different minor versions of
the same major version of guile installed.

Regards, Andy
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-12 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-12 17:47 Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y? Rob Browning
2002-11-12 18:56 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2002-11-12 20:54   ` Rob Browning
2002-11-13 15:58     ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2002-11-13 17:20       ` Rob Browning
2002-11-13 18:56       ` Rob Browning
2002-11-13 19:33         ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2002-11-13 19:53           ` Rob Browning
2002-11-14 17:14           ` tomas
2002-11-12 21:10   ` Andreas Rottmann [this message]
2002-11-12 22:12 ` Neil Jerram
2002-11-12 22:40   ` Rob Browning

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