Re: gnustep-base library versioning

[Larry Campbell]

On Jan 3, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Adam Fedor wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Larry Campbell wrote:
>
> > Yes, but if one component wants to use a new version and nineteen  
> > others don't care, the nineteen others still have to relink if  
> > they're to be deployed along with the one. It's the relinking of  
> > the nineteen others that's the killer.
>
> You should be able to install several versions of the GNUstep  
> libraries at once, unless you are installing from a distribution  
> that does not allow that.  Applications should use the old version  
> unless they are specifically recompiled.  It's possible this could  
> be a problem since Resources aren't versioned, but it's not likely.

This is a problem for us because we deploy tarballs of binaries, and  
the tool chain that builds & deploys the tarballs complains if there  
are duplicate files. We could probably do some huge hack to allow it  
to work, but it sure would be simpler if gnustep-base wouldn't  
require binding to the minor version.

Apple certainly doesn't make you relink everything whenever a new  
version of MacOS X comes out!