Re: Parallel installs

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org> writes:

> On 14 Jul 2000, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> [...]
> >  - RC files - from themes, system-wide, and from the user
> >  - Modules and theme engines
>      ^^^^^^^
> these aren't handled with versioning at all yet ;(

> in general the changes don't look too bad to me, however, on the
> consistency side, for some things you did
>   gtk.xx  -> gtk-2.0.xx
>   gtk.xx  -> gtk_2_0.xx
>   gtk+.xx -> gtk2.0.xx
> 
> especially, why did you skip the '+' on some files??

I think fixed up most of these after writing the mail - I changed
from: 

  gtk_2_0.m4 to gtk-2.0.m4

I believe that it's now gtk-2.0, glib-2.0 pretty much everywhere
except for the gettext domain - which is hidden from the user pretty
much entirely. I dropped the + because gtk+-2.0 is just too much
punctuation, and we already didn't have the + in the majority of of
places - /usr/lib/gtk, ~/.gtkrc, gtk-config etc. 

(Remember the questions about what is 'gtk+-'?)
 
> also, looking at configure.in now, we now have:
> 
> [...]
> gdktargetlib=libgdk-x11-1.3.la
> gtktargetlib=libgtk-x11-1.3.la
> [...]
>   GLIB_LIBS="$glib_dir/libglib-1.3.la $glib_dir/gmodule/libgmodule-1.3.la"
> [...]
>   gdktargetlib="libgdk-linux-fb-1.3.la"
>   gtktargetlib="libgtk-linux-fb-1.3.la"
> 
> etc, probably making their way through otehr files (makefiles?) as well.
> that is completely unacceptable, i went through great length to hard-code
> the version number in really _one_ place only, that is:

To my knowledge - you can't do substitutions in automake target names.
If you know how to do that, let me know and I'll make the change.

Since we don't change the major/minor pair very often at all, I don't
mind having to go through and change the Makefile.am files when
we go to 2.0, though I'd admit it isnt' elegant.

Regards,
                                        Owen