Re: How to transition to G++ 3.2 wthout any breakage

[Yenar Calentaure <yenar@host.sk>]

Luca Barbieri wrote:
> > HAHAHAHAHA.  No.
> >
> > .______.
> > _|doogie|_ <-- dpkg hat
>
> No because of technical reasons, or because it's too much work?
IMHO: No because it is unclean/ugly/fragile/hacky/total mess/etc.

> IMHO since changing library filenames breaks compatibility with other
> distributions, this is the only way to allow installation of old
> packages (that, still IMHO, must absolutely not be broken).

All c++ sarge packages will be compiled with g++ 3.2 (AFAIK). All C++ 
code needs to be recompiled to work (still it's better than megahacks 
affecting whole distribution IMHO). If you want, you can put old 
libstdc++ and old (locally compiled) binaries somewhere in /usr/local 
and create wrappers by hand (or write wrapper generator - shouldn't be 
hard).

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