Re: shlibs file changes proposal

1999-08-21 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 07:53:11PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > Because it's the right thing to do? > > Because even some free programs use shlib plugins without sonames and it'd > be better to maintain compatibility than to break it simply because we > would prefer to have sonames? > > Because

Re: shlibs file changes proposal

1999-08-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 03:36:29PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 19:53 -0700 1999-08-18, Joseph Carter wrote: > >Because even some free programs use shlib plugins without sonames and it'd > >be better to maintain compatibility than to break it simply because we > >would prefer to have sonames? >

Re: shlibs file changes proposal

1999-08-20 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 03:36:29PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > >Because even some free programs use shlib plugins without sonames and it'd > >be better to maintain compatibility than to break it simply because we > >would prefer to have sonames? > > shared objects without sonames are not shared l

Re: shlibs file changes proposal

1999-08-19 Thread Joel Klecker
At 19:53 -0700 1999-08-18, Joseph Carter wrote: Because even some free programs use shlib plugins without sonames and it'd be better to maintain compatibility than to break it simply because we would prefer to have sonames? shared objects without sonames are not shared libraries, and thus do n

Re: shlibs file changes proposal

1999-08-19 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 08:33:11PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Since the new quake stuff uses this, I will not be uploading any of the > > glquake stuff to master until such time as this proposal is addressed and > > accepted or rejected. Not having something like my proposed solution > > really

Re: shlibs file changes proposal

1999-08-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Joseph Carter writes ("shlibs file changes proposal"): ... > Since the new quake stuff uses this, I will not be uploading any of the > glquake stuff to master until such time as this proposal is addressed and > accepted or rejected. Not having something like my proposed solut

shlibs file changes proposal

1999-08-07 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 03:46:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Method for shlibs to work with libfoo.so (#42236) > * Under discussion. > * Proposed by Joseph Carter. > * This is a proposal to make binary-only shared libs that have no > soname work with dpkh-shlibdeps. The idea is to detect