Re: Dependency libraries and ABI

[Sander Vesik <sv117949 ireland sun com>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Alex Larsson wrote:

> On 27 Feb 2002, Mike Kestner wrote:
> 
> > I wish it were the latter...
> > 
> > Is there a technical reason why the platform name needs to be mangled
> > into the so target for gtk and gdk?  glib, pango, and atk all seem to
> > have been able to avoid this.  From a Gtk# perspective, the mono runtime
> > deals with simple transformations like s/dll/so, but having the library
> > base name vary across platforms complicates function access for me.  
> > 
> > If there's no technical reason for the difference, I'd love to see it go
> > away as we switch to the -2.0 names.
> 
> There is a technical reason. You may want several backends installed at 
> the same time. E.g. The X11 backend and the framebuffer backend.
> 

Also, if you really want a backend neutral name for a special purpose,
surely you can solve a large part of the problem with a symbolic link? I
don't think force-feeding everybody to have such - or give up the ability
have gtk+ installed for multiple backends - is justified though.

>
> / Alex
> 

	Sander

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