Re: [Libvisual-devel] pkg-config and library madness !

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

Heya Salsaman,

This is at all no madness, most clients are still on 0.2.0 so that is
why parallel installability is needed, and also very sane. Most
libraries do this by design, it was a thing we've been lacking
in the past.

example:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   21 2006-01-18 21:49 libglib-1.2.so.0 ->
libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151K 2006-01-11 12:12 libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 772K 2006-01-18 20:41 libglib-2.0.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  807 2006-01-18 20:41 libglib-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 2006-01-24 16:32 libglib-2.0.so ->
libglib-2.0.so.0.800.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 2006-01-24 16:32 libglib-2.0.so.0 ->
libglib-2.0.so.0.800.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 528K 2006-01-18 20:41 libglib-2.0.so.0.800.6

pkg-config:
glib-2.0.pc  glib.pc

These are just examples, most libraries do this.

We will not consider moving back to the old flawed and faulty
library versioning style, also it's no problem for applications
even better, you can easily select which major release you want.

Also please consider a tone that is less in the style of:
'mess','madness' and 'crap'.

Cheers,
Dennis


On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 08:31 +0200, salsaman wrote:
> Hi,
> I am testing libvisual 0.4.0. First thing I noticed is there is some 
> kind of madness with pkg-config.
> 
> Now look, the idea of pkg-config is to make a package and its flags easy 
> to find. It makes sense then to have livisual.pc.
> It does not make any sense to have libvisual-<version>.pc
> 
> that is what pkg-config --modversion is for - to retrieve the pakage 
> version !
> 
> What justification is there for having libvisual-<version>.pc ? It's 
> hardly likely that a user would want to have multiple versions of 
> libvisual on their system.
> 
> Please consider moving back to libvisual.pc
> 
> 
> Also this version number madness has continued into the libraries, after 
> installing 0.4.0 over 0.2.0 here is the mess I ended up with in /usr/lib:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    890 Mar 26 07:54 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.la*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     22 Mar 26 07:54 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so-> 
> libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     22 Mar 26 07:54 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0 
> -> libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 689958 Mar 26 07:54 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    868 Feb  1 21:45 /usr/lib/libvisual.la*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     18 Feb  1 21:45 /usr/lib/libvisual.so -> 
> libvisual.so.0.0.0*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     18 Mar 20 11:49 /usr/lib/libvisual.so.0 -> 
> libvisual.so.0.0.0*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 135496 Aug 22  2005 /usr/lib/libvisual.so.0.0.0*
> 
> 
> More to follow...
> 
> 
> Salsaman
> http://lives.sourceforge.net
> 
> 
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