Re: libswt* debian packages
I gave this very topic some thought myself. I wanted to keep the
library version as the last digit of the package name. That is to say
lib$NAME$VERSION, where NAME=swt-gtk VERSION=3. I think there is some
benefit to this, as people (and possibly scripts) are used to looking
at the last number for the library version. If it were named
libswt3-gtk2, it may be somewhat ambiguous whether this package
provides libswt.so.3 or libswt.so.2. If I were to release a seperate
gtk3 version, I would likely name the libswt-gtk3-3. That is to say
lib$NAME-$VERSION, which is common when NAME ends in a digit, where
NAME=swt-gtk3 VERSION=3.
I've cc'ed this e-mail debian-devel to poll anyone's opinion that
cares to provide it. For the current package, here are the names I'm
considering:
libswt-gtk3
libswt-gtk-3
libswt3-gtk
libswt-gtk2-3
libswt3-gtk2
Cheers,
Shaun
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:07:29 +0200, Sven Herzberg <herzi@gnome-de.org> wrote:
> Hi Shaun,
>
> I was just checking out new packages in Sarge and I saw libswt-* for
> eclipse 3. I just want to recommend a different naming scheme for those
> packages as neither libswt-gtk3-* is related to GTK+ 3.0 nor
> libswt-mozilla3-* to mozilla 3.0.
>
> I think it would be a better naming scheme to have
> libswt3-{gtk,mozilla/xul,foobartoolkit}-* (or even libswt3.0-*) as there
> might be both a GTK2 and a GTK3 version once the GTK folks start working
> on GTK 3.0 (which should be in about two years or so).
>
> Kind Regards,
> Sven
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