Re: 3.2 transition

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

On the FAQ:

Why don't we put the libs in a different directory?

Basically, it's too complex. For the glibc transition, we could do this because they used different dynamic linkers. For this transition, there is also little to gain in having full backwards compatibility to the old ABI. The only gain is that third party binary only applications that dynamically link to C++ using-libs (other than the stdc++ library itself) continue to work. The only common case that comes to mind for this is libqt2 and kdelibs3. Both of these packages are old, so to keep binary compatibility with previous versions of our distribution (and some other distributions) is easy. We continue to build libqt2 and all dependant packages with g++-2.95. Anything using libqt3, will build with the new ABI, along with other C++ libraries. 




I've thought having a directory for doing LD_LIBRARY_PATH might help people keep compatibility 
with other dists or legacy applications,

thoughts?


regards,
	junichi