Re: [Chicken-users] no soname

[Tobia Conforto]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> I wonder what's the point of enforcing use of soname, if (for  
> example) header-files are usually not versioned. What if you want to  
> install a chicken.h 3 and 4 alongside each other?

I believe it's a matter of end user support.

A developer who wants to build against chicken 3 or 4 will install the  
right -dev package, which forces removal of the other versions.  But  
this is a developer-only process and a developer is supposed to either  
be working with version 3 or with version 4 at a time.

The purpose of soname is supporting end users who want to install and  
use binary packages built against different major versions of the  
library, alongside each other.

IMHO

Tobia