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Re: pylibs and pydeps: shlibs-like support for Python extensions



Le mercredi 01 février 2006 à 11:02 -0600, Joe Wreschnig a écrit :
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:16 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mardi 31 janvier 2006 à 16:08 -0600, Joe Wreschnig a écrit :
> > > The immediate problem: PyGTK encourages other Python modules to use its
> > > code generator and GObject wrappers. Between 2.6 and 2.8 the ABI changed
> > > so that extensions build against 2.8 do not work against 2.6. This is
> > > breaking gst-python and its reverse dependencies, soundconverter,
> > > quodlibet, and istanbul. It may break other packages as well.
> > > 
> Sorry, besides my other response, I need to answer: No, the soname stays
> the same. When things are upwards-compatible, we bump shlibs. We don't
> change the package name.

I should be the one to be sorry. I misunderstood you and thought
extensions built against 2.6 wouldn't work with 2.8 either.
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