Re: mpich 3.1.4 in rawhide - soname changes

2015-03-12 Thread Martyn Foster
On 12 March 2015 at 09:51, Sandro Mani wrote: > > On 11.03.2015 20:51, Orion Poplawski wrote: > >> I updated mpich 3.1 to 3.1.4 in rawhide. I wouldn't have thought this >> would >> make a difference, but apparently upstream decided to rename libraries >> (libmpich.so.12 -> libmpi.so.12) and drop

Re: Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

2015-02-24 Thread Martyn Foster
On 20 February 2015 at 16:54, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 02/16/2015 04:17 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > I don't buy this argument wrt. Fedora. > > > > Fedora is a rapid moving, forward looking distro, in which such > > regressions should be fixed and not be worked around by compat-libs. > > That ra

Re: Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

2015-02-16 Thread Martyn Foster
On 16 February 2015 at 15:12, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Christopher Meng wrote: > > Maintaining several version of the same library is not easy as you think, > > basically once a developer wants to install version X while then another > > people want to deploy things based on version Y, how to crack