Re: [RE: 2.4 Module List - zenity]

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas urgent rug ac be>]

On a related note, we plan to do just the same for gst-register.
There's a simple reason for that - we want to make 0.6 and 0.7/0.8
parallel-installable, but if the binaries are non-versioned then they
need to be able to act on both versions.

This is a sine qua non for providing sane packages, unless someone has a
better idea that we haven't thought of ?

Thomas

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 01:51, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Shahms E. King">
> 
> > > > > zenity --emulate-version=2.4 
> > > > > zenity --emulate-version=2.6
> > > > 
> > > > I like it. And it could even then call an old versioned executable to keep
> > > > everything tidy.
> > > 
> > > I have never, ever seen command line parameters like these. Could someone
> > > point me to prior art in versioned command line parameter parsing field?
> > 
> > I'm sure you've used gcc before . . . gcc -V<version> will use whatever
> > version you specify (if it's installed)
> 
> Oh, good point, didn't think of that... My mind was consumed by the word
> "emulate". Man, it's going to rock when our simple dialogue launcher [1]
> competes with gcc for command line parameter crack.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> [1] Maybe Murray doesn't like the name because he doesn't grok the intended
> ZEN of zenity...

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