Re: The names of the packages (Re: ANNOUNCE: libxml-2.0.0 is released)

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 07:00:14PM +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org> writes:
> 
> Thanks for the new release!
> 
> |    Since this version is not backward compatible, the module is called
> |   libxml2 and a typical installation may have libxml libxml2 and
> |   libxml2-devel installed together.
> 
> I'm always wondering what will fit best.  Wouldn't it be better to
> number the "old" version?
> 
>     libxml1
>     libxml and libxml-devel (= version 2)

  Well as a distributor you can do those things. I can't ! If I ship 
an rpm with same package name and breaking the binary compatibility,
people will kill me. You can do those trick when shipping complete OS
updates, it's difficult for an add on.

Daniel

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