Re: [Opensync-devel] dual installs of 0.22 and 0.4x

[Chris F. <cd...@fo...>]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 09:26:43AM +0200, Daniel Gollub wrote:
> > 	- pkg-config:
> > 
> > 		0.22: opensync-1.0.pc
> > 		0.40: libopensync.pc (should be libopensync1.pc, but no biggie)
> 
> Need to check why we took libopensync.pc not libopensync1.pc ....

Let me know if you find out.  I can patch this if needed.


> > If this were implemented, it would be possible to write applications
> > that support both libraries at runtime, which I'm working on right now.
> 
> Hmm interesting ... do you really think it's worth to stay with 0.22 for long?

Well, depending on when 0.40 comes out, there will probably still be
6 months before it gets included in fast-moving distros such as Ubuntu
and Fedora.  And users often upgrade sometime after that.

And some users may need the 0.22 plugin even while using 0.40 for other
things.  Just a guess.  Maybe my fears are for nothing, but I certainly
plan on having both installed just to support users, and it would
be a pain if I kept clobbering my own test configs. :-)


> And i'm also not quite sure if it's really worth to put so much effort in 
> supporting several APIs - at least so early ...

Well, 0.22 is already there... if 0.22 and 0.40 don't conflict then
0.22 is just there as a happy backup, maybe even for OSyncUpdater.

I wouldn't look at it as unnecessary API support... 0.22 won't go away
too fast, I think.


> But if someone wants to take care about this i'm not going to stop her/him ...
> At least i'm going to concentrate on a "simple" update-path for now ...

So just to be clear, if I come up with a patch for OSyncUpdater, I can
change 0.40's default config directory from ~/.opensync to ~/.libopensync1 ?

Thanks,
- Chris