Re: Guile 1.3 == SO 4
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 08:18:54PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> davidw@prosa.it (David N. Welton) writes:
>
> > Ok, so I was able to confirm this with Jim (Blandy? argh, I'm
> > tired.... they guy who does guile upstream, not Pick) - 4 is indeed
> > the correct SO version for Guile 1.3. So this means that a few
> > packages will have to be recompiled.
>
> I guess from the hugely uninformative changelog you added
> compatibility symlinks to the old soname in -4? If so, please don't
> remove them. Breaking packages gratuitously, common practice as it
> seems to be these days, really does suck.
If it is not compatible, why put symlinks? Feel free to talk to the
upstream maintainer, if you wish.
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David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw
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