Re: help making librsvg and eel stay out of the way of GNOME 1 versions

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

Notes for Ramiro:

> >  - rename the library to include version number in Makefile.am.
> >    So replace libgtk.la with libgtk-1.3.la or whatever.

I think you should do this only for the newer version.

> >  - all headers of BOTH the old and the new versions must be
> >    in a subdirectory of includedir. So:
> >
> >       includedir/eel1/eel/foo.h
> >       includedir/eel2/eel/foo.h
> >
> >    #include <eel/foo.h>
> >
> >    This may require a re-release of eel1 to fix, but it has to be
> >    fixed, or people including eel/foo.h will get the old headers.

I think you should do this for both.

> >  - if you have executables or data files, rename them or the directory
> >    they are inside
> >
> >  - change your .pc files or -config scripts to contain
> >    -I includedir/eel2, and the new library name.
> >
> >  - docs need installing to a versioned directory also, of course,
> >    a special case of data files

These also can be changed only for the newer version.

    -- Darin