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Re: [Chicken-users] no soname
From: |
felix winkelmann |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] no soname |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:38:35 +0100 |
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Tobia Conforto
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> A developer who wants to build against chicken 3 or 4 will install the right
> -dev package, which forces removal of the other versions. But this is a
> developer-only process and a developer is supposed to either be working with
> version 3 or with version 4 at a time.
>
> The purpose of soname is supporting end users who want to install and use
> binary packages built against different major versions of the library,
> alongside each other.
>
Thank you, Tobia. Now I understand.
cheers,
felix