Re: [RFC] Renaming libnet-1.1.1 to libnet2-1.1.1

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:46:40AM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> All those in favor of not breaking every libnet1.0 app in the universe:
WHY people say it is required to break some software?

want to build 1.0.x code? install libnet0-dev (or whatever does its work). want to build 1.1.x code? install libnet1-dev (or whatever does its work).

want to run software? just install the fucked package and play with it. if it require any dynamic library, install it and shut up.

want to build 1.0.x and 1.1.x code at the same time on the same system? welcome to the real world, zillion of other libraries have the same problem. if we start to change name for it, total number of library names becomes zillion^2 and number of sites plublishing libraries become uncountable.

world if full of libraries with different ABI, interfaces, whatever. think about GNOME for a second. the only thing one can't do is to have two different and incompatible sets of header files contemporary on the same system. i don't see this a great issue, specially if one install precompiled stuff.

changing name to a library only because its ABI is incompatible backward is a very very poor solution.

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