Re: TeX Licenses & teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:21:10PM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
> My goodness! Here's where all our experiences with dynamic
> libraries pay off.
>
> For the love of all that is good in this world, when the LaTeX3
> team finally releases it to the world: please include these two things:
>
> 1. SONAMES
> 2. Versioned symbols
> 3. Namespaces
THREE, I mean THREE things... [Monty Python sketch elided]
So far our experience with dynamic libraries is what kind of mess you get
if you only have the first :) glibc uses versioned symbols, but it's
still a voice in the wilderness.
But yeah, a strong versioning system could be an improvement over
filename-and-official-author based schemes, except for possibly
being more complicated. It might mean having to keep large numbers
of versions of popular packages around, though, in order to have a
complete system.
Richard Braakman
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