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Re: About the recent DD retirements



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.

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