Re: [DebianGIS] libgdal renaming
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:09:48AM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On 1/7/06, Silke Reimer <Silke.Reimer@intevation.de> wrote:
> > I would vote to stick to our decission about the package name but adapt
> > the soname of libgdal to have an minor and subversion, so that the full
> > soname is 1.3.1 instead of 1. This will have the advantage that there
> > isn't any need to rebuild qgis or other package just because a new gdal
> > version is present since its concurrent installation on the same system
> > is possible.
> >
> > It requires though that Frank changes the soname each time he releases a
> > new gdal version - which isn't too difficult I think. So we need some
> > feedback from you, Frank.
>
> Silke,
>
> I am not adverse to the soname changing for each version
> on Debian, but I think that should be a debian specific
> patch, not something done upstream.
>
> For my purposes (in the general context) the soname and
> versioning are about the C API, not the C++ API, and that
> is why I don't want to change this upstream. I do realize that
> for the sake of proper version selection re: MapServer and QGIS
> you need distinct libraries as the C++ ABI alters but I don't
> wish to do that in general for GDAL.
>
Why not splitting C and C++ libs?
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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