On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Andy Falanga (afalanga) <afala...@micron.com> wrote: > I am wondering what techniques are considered most useful for managing > multiple installation of versions. For example, my team produces a C++ > library which we provide both a C++ and a python API. A couple of our > consumers think they will need multiple versions concurrently. Knowing > that this product is both a C++ and Python API how would management of > parallel installations work? > > I'm not sure if this is an automake question or not. If it's not, what > venue would be the correct one?
In addition to the major-number-on-end-of-shared-library convention, there's also a convention of putting libraries and include files in directories and packages whose name has the major number as a suffix. That's not an Automake thing, though.