Re: libgal sonames
On Sat, 2001-09-01 at 16:35, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:13:00PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Sat, 2001-09-01 at 15:59, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > If it's that unstable why is it being shipped as a shared library?
>
> > to be used by gnumeric and evolution. That is, to use the same package
> > for the library for both applications.
>
> Well, yes but that goal could be accomplished by statically linking the
> library. Though if upstream think it makes sense to have it shared
> you're kind of stuck with a lot of the problems.
>
but, that's what sonames and library versioning are for, are they not?
I mean, the problem is on libgal9 being removed when installing
libgal10. If both can coexist, there's no problem at all, right?
cheers
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