Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] mingw-get: matching DLL soname in dependencies

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Monday 26 April 2010 16:44:19 Keith Marshall wrote:
> And finally: in my discussion last week, with Chuck, I suggested
> that perhaps the package names, (i.e. the name attribute on the
> <package> elements), should be prefixed with the subsystem name,
> at least in the case of MSYS packages, to avoid ambiguity.
>  Perhaps we should consider a similar policy for mingw32 packages;
> or do we want to adopt the policy that mingw32 is the default, and
> thus it is implied if not so prefixed?  (It is redundant anyway,
> in *both* cases, as any possible ambiguity should be resolved by
> the subsystem attribute of the containing <package-collection>;
> I'm thinking of what will be displayed by the GUI version of the
> installer, but it may be better to just address the issue in that
> context, and avoid cluttering the package specs with redundant
> information).

Sorry.  Belay that parenthesised closing comment; a prefix *isn't* 
entirely redundant.  How else would a CLI user disambiguate

  $ mingw-get install binutils

say, to indicate whether it is the mingw32 or the MSYS variant he 
wishes to install?

-- 
Regards,
Keith.