Re: [gnome-db] Libgda modifications in CVS HEAD

["Gustavo R. Montesino" <grmontesino ig com br>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 23:56 -0200, Gustavo R. Montesino wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 15:17 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 00:00 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:59 -0600, Daniel Espinosa wrote:
> > > > > > This change is API incompatible with the last version
> > > > > > of LibGDA, then is it correct for a version 1.x?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > no, API changes are not allowed in the 1.2 series. We might probably
> > > > > high the version number to 2.0 for that version
> > > > 
> > > > So this new libgda version will be parllel-installable with libgda-1.2.
> > > > 
> > > > So it needs a new pc file, and a different name for the libarary. Do you
> > > > plan to make those changes?
> > > > 
> > > > Unfortunately, you already use "2" in the library name, 
> > > > /opt/gnome210/lib/libgda-2.so
> > > > so you might want to choose a different even number for this new version
> > > > to avoid confusion.
> > > > 
> > > hmm, right. What about calling the lib libgda-2-0.so or something, and
> > > thus make it match with the libgda version number?
> > > 
> > > Or any other idea? Having libgda-2.0.pc and libgda-3.so might be a bit
> > > confusing.
> > 
> > Actually, I'm trying to make 1.0 and 1.2 parallel-installable on Debian,
> 
> Why?
> 

Mostly to support a smooth transition of all dependent packages to 1.2
and, if sarge (next Debian version) ends up getting released before the
transition ends, to have both versions in it instead of just the older
one

-- 
Gustavo R. Montesino
Debian Brasil - http://www.debianbrasil.org/