On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:17:41 +0100 Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 04:06:18PM +0100, Fabian Harfert wrote: > > the name libwnck-1 is right. The library files have this name and > > the pkg-config file refers to that. This is because it uses Gtk+ > > 2.x and has a different API than libwnck-3. I don't know why they > > chose this versioning, but it's their decision. > > Well, these are the sonames, which need not be related to the program > version. A package with a given version may ship arbitrary libraries > with arbitrary sonames. For instance, gmp-6.1 and gmp-6.0 ship > libgmp.so.10 and libgmpxx.so.4. > > Nevertheless, we still call all variables gmp and gmp-6.0, > respectively. > > So here we should also use libwnck-2. Notice that the variable name is > something that humans edit, whereas we need not care about sonames > that are handled by some magic. > > Andreas > Ok, just saw that after I read your mail.
