Re: [Evolution-hackers] Synching Evolution/GNOME version

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Matthew,

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 16:51 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:53 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:31 +0000, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> > > There have been many requests regarding syncing the versions of
> > > Evolution (currently 2.12) and GNOME (2.20). I feel that it would be
> > > fine, if we just sync the minor versions. 
> > > 
> > > Evolution 2.22 
> > > GtkHTML 3.22
> > > Evolution Data Server 1.22
> > > Evolution Exchange 2.22
> > 
> > I'd like to see EDS synced completely to 2.22.
> 
> And while we're at it, can we please drop the meaningless -1.2 suffix
> from the library names (e.g. libedataserver-1.2.so)?  As far as I can
> tell this is just an artifact from an age before the EDS sonames were
> properly versioned.
> 

Isn't that -1.2 is the API version? 

> Applications that link to E-D-S would have to be recompiled obviously,
> but as long as they're using pkgconfig correctly they should not require
> any code changes (I think).
> 

I don't think those application would be happy to do this. There are a
few apps that use the .so directly without pkgconfig (iirc
OpenOffice.org). 

Unless there is a clear nod from the stake holders of those projects, I
wouldn't be favor of doing this. The old version of apps break with new
Evolution/EDS. Lot of those apps don't have a 6 month and takes a lot to
ship a update for the old version to cope up with new EDS.

-Srini.