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Re: [aspell-devel] Re: GNU Aspell 0.60 Released
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Kevin Atkinson |
Subject: |
Re: [aspell-devel] Re: GNU Aspell 0.60 Released |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Sep 2004 04:08:02 -0600 (MDT) |
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Brian Nelson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:59:32PM -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> >
> > > Earlier you mentioned the problem of installing both Aspell 0.50 and
> > > Aspell 0.60 due to the fact that I chose not to increment the so-name. I
> > > have attempted to remedy this situation by adding an compile time option
> > > to increment the so-name. Have you looked into this possibility?
> >
> > I've thought about it, but I think it's better (for Debian anyway) to
> > keep the soname the same. Changing the soname would require rebuilding
> > of all packages using the library (~30 or so) and the dictionaries,
> > whereas keeping the soname would only require rebuilding the
> > dictionaries.
>
> No Problem, if you think that is better.
>
> > The transition could be gradual since the libaspell15 and the new
> > library (libaspell16?) could coexist, but I don't think there's much
> > benefit to keeping two libraries around.
>
> Yes it is libaspell16. I also added the ability to create a backwards
> compatibility library which simply links with libaspell16 for applications
> expecting libaspell16.
Make that "expecting libaspell15" ;)
>
> I don't care either way. I just want to make sure you know what you
> options are.
>
>
>
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