From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fabian Harfert Subject: Re: libwnck Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:36:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20160224163652.2dcb659a@alarmpi> References: <20160223113138.GA19907@solar> <20160224160618.1e9d8676@alarmpi> <20160224151741.GA23190@solar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYbUp-0005QW-Vc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:37:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYbUk-0007pN-EC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:36:59 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.14]:61175) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYbUk-0007pD-5v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:36:54 -0500 Received: from alarmpi ([79.210.71.230]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb004) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MbMg8-1aFpej1QWa-00In5f for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:36:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20160224151741.GA23190@solar> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:17:41 +0100 Andreas Enge 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.