From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mikael Djurfeldt 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 13:56:44 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87u1imiste.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> Reply-To: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037128836 16350 80.91.224.249 (12 Nov 2002 19:20:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:20:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org 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 18BgaQ-0004Ev-00 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:20:34 +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 18BgTU-0006Vw-00; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:13:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18BgDY-0000FN-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:56:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18BgDV-0000F0-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:56:55 -0500 Original-Received: from kvast.blakulla.net ([213.212.20.77]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18BgDU-0000Ev-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:56:53 -0500 Original-Received: from linnaeus ([18.42.2.46]) by kvast.blakulla.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18BgDN-0006Z4-00; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:56:45 +0100 Original-Received: from mdj by linnaeus with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18BgDM-0003WH-00; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:56:44 -0500 Original-To: Rob Browning Original-Cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se In-Reply-To: <87u1imiste.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> Original-Lines: 18 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:1687 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1687 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? Regarding the binary: How about using similar conventions as for emacs: guile symlinked to guile1.6.1 Best, Mikael _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel