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Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?
From: |
Andreas Rottmann |
Subject: |
Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y? |
Date: |
12 Nov 2002 22:10:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> writes:
> Rob Browning <address@hidden> 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
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- Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?, Rob Browning, 2002/11/12
- Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2002/11/12
- Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?, Rob Browning, 2002/11/12
- Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2002/11/13
- Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?, Rob Browning, 2002/11/13
- Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?, Rob Browning, 2002/11/13
- Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2002/11/13
- Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?, Rob Browning, 2002/11/13
- Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?, tomas, 2002/11/14
Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?,
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Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?, Neil Jerram, 2002/11/12