Re: libwnck

[Fabian Harfert]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:17:41 +0100
Andreas Enge <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 04:06:18PM +0100, Fabian Harfert wrote:
> > the name libwnck-1 is right. The library files have this name and
> > the pkg-config file refers to that. This is because it uses Gtk+
> > 2.x and has a different API than libwnck-3. I don't know why they
> > chose this versioning, but it's their decision.  
> 
> Well, these are the sonames, which need not be related to the program
> version. A package with a given version may ship arbitrary libraries
> with arbitrary sonames. For instance, gmp-6.1 and gmp-6.0 ship
> libgmp.so.10 and libgmpxx.so.4.
> 
> Nevertheless, we still call all variables gmp and gmp-6.0,
> respectively.
> 
> So here we should also use libwnck-2. Notice that the variable name is
> something that humans edit, whereas we need not care about sonames
> that are handled by some magic.
> 
> Andreas
> 

Ok, just saw that after I read your mail.