From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Rottmann Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y? Date: 12 Nov 2002 22:10:08 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87heemv6j3.fsf@alice.rotty.yi.org> References: <87u1imiste.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 1037136163 18990 80.91.224.249 (12 Nov 2002 21:22:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:22:43 +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 18BiUb-0004w1-00 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:22:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18BiUL-0005Rk-00; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:22:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18BiJ9-0008MZ-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:10:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18BiJ2-0008L1-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:10:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 18BiIW-00083l-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:10:12 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 12402 invoked by uid 0); 12 Nov 2002 21:10:10 -0000 Original-Received: from m191p007.adsl.highway.telekom.at (HELO alice.rhinosaur.lan) (62.47.191.199) by mail.gmx.net (mp002-rz3) with SMTP; 12 Nov 2002 21:10:10 -0000 Original-Received: from andy by alice.rhinosaur.lan with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18BiIS-0003OC-00 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:10:08 +0100 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1690 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1690 Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > Rob Browning 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 -- Andreas Rottmann | Dru@ICQ | 118634484@ICQ | a.rottmann@gmx.at http://www.8ung.at/rotty | GnuPG Key: http://www.8ung.at/rotty/gpg.asc Fingerprint | DFB4 4EB4 78A4 5EEE 6219 F228 F92F CFC5 01FD 5B62 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel