On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:36:27AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Sure they are. That's how we got into this problem in the first > place, with various DVD players telling their users to convert libXv.a > into a .so so their plugins could load them. That's because Red Hat broke the rules, a decision they have since reversed. Besides which, without someone taking responsibility for the so versioning of a library, there is no guarantee that Red Hat's .so is going to mean the same thing as ours, especially if, say, their release is based on XFree86 4.1.0 and ours is based on 4.2.0, or vice versa. -- G. Branden Robinson | Men use thought only to justify Debian GNU/Linux | their wrong doings, and speech only branden@debian.org | to conceal their thoughts. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Voltaire
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