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

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

George <jirka@5z.com> writes:

> 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.

Oh, sorry. /me was confused again.

Forgot that gnome-core HEAD still uses gnome-libs-1.0 ....

> 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
> 
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