On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:21:10PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > My goodness! Here's where all our experiences with dynamic > libraries pay off. > > For the love of all that is good in this world, when the LaTeX3 > team finally releases it to the world: please include these two things: > > 1. SONAMES > 2. Versioned symbols > 3. Namespaces
THREE, I mean THREE things... [Monty Python sketch elided] So far our experience with dynamic libraries is what kind of mess you get if you only have the first :) glibc uses versioned symbols, but it's still a voice in the wilderness. But yeah, a strong versioning system could be an improvement over filename-and-official-author based schemes, except for possibly being more complicated. It might mean having to keep large numbers of versions of popular packages around, though, in order to have a complete system. Richard Braakman
