Re: IMPORTANT: to all HEAD gnome-core/applets users/hackers

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 02:11:09AM +0100, Martin Baulig wrote:
> Why don't we use libtool's `-release 1.1' mechanism here ?
> 
> This way, we'll get a `libpanel_applet-1.1.so.*.*' and (for the `-dev' package)
> a `libpanel_applet.so -> libpanel_applet-1.1.so.*.*' link.
> 
> It'll also allow you to have both 1.0 and 1.1 applets installed.

Well the thing is 1.0 applets NEED to load the 1.1 libs to be able to talk to
the 1.1 panel.  And 1.0 applets using the 1.1 libs will have no problems with
the 1.0 panel.  So the above wouldn't work, all that the 1.1 applet lib is
an "upgrade".  If you mix 1.0 and 1.1, just make sure everything uses the 1.1
libs.

The problem was that we were not sure how to do all this and were changing
the soname around all the time, SO, we had a .so.1.0.0 around which would
confuse things in fact (unless you recompiled everything).  But no one was
supposed to use HEAD for real work so ... :)

George