On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 09:59:17AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes: > > This means that if you use system packages and want to have two > > applications that both want foo.jar installed, but different versions > > (since they need different APIs or different bug compatibility), we > > don't support that well. For C libraries, there are sonames and all, > > but those largely doesn't exist for other languages and fixing that > > would be a huge undertaking with, IMO, pretty poor prospects for > > success. > For Java, I'm afraid I've taken to embedding the ABI version in the > filename. AKA: ELF shared library semantics, reinvented 20 years behind schedule. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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