Re: [Chicken-users] no soname

[felix winkelmann]

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