On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:25:32AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:23:03PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > The only problem I can see is with the -dev packages, which may need > > some work to allow different versions to be installed. > > That's OK. We often only support one version of -dev packages, so that > people don't build against soon-to-be-obsolete versions by accident.
It becomes problem if the versions are not source compatible, however. Then packages become unbuildable every time we release a new libgal version (and update the single libgal-dev). It may be better to have packages that link with libgal (other than evolution and gnumeric) link statically instead of dynamically. This would be a workaround until libgal stabilizes. Presumably it will stabilize at some point -- either that, or someone will take the most useful parts of libgal and give them a stable interface in another library. There's obviously enough need for what libgal provides, otherwise there wouldn't be so many packages using it now. -- Richard Braakman Will write free software for money. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html
