From: Fabian Harfert <fhmgufs@web.de>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: libwnck
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:36:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160224163652.2dcb659a@alarmpi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160224151741.GA23190@solar>
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:17:41 +0100
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 04:06:18PM +0100, Fabian Harfert wrote:
> > the name libwnck-1 is right. The library files have this name and
> > the pkg-config file refers to that. This is because it uses Gtk+
> > 2.x and has a different API than libwnck-3. I don't know why they
> > chose this versioning, but it's their decision.
>
> Well, these are the sonames, which need not be related to the program
> version. A package with a given version may ship arbitrary libraries
> with arbitrary sonames. For instance, gmp-6.1 and gmp-6.0 ship
> libgmp.so.10 and libgmpxx.so.4.
>
> Nevertheless, we still call all variables gmp and gmp-6.0,
> respectively.
>
> So here we should also use libwnck-2. Notice that the variable name is
> something that humans edit, whereas we need not care about sonames
> that are handled by some magic.
>
> Andreas
>
Ok, just saw that after I read your mail.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-24 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-23 11:31 libwnck Andreas Enge
2016-02-23 12:14 ` libwnck Efraim Flashner
2016-02-24 15:06 ` libwnck Fabian Harfert
2016-02-24 15:17 ` libwnck Andreas Enge
2016-02-24 15:36 ` Fabian Harfert [this message]
2016-02-28 15:40 ` libwnck Andreas Enge
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