Petteri Räty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: >> Quoting Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Tom Marble wrote: >>>> Packaging >>>> --------- >>> I think we need to add: >>> >>> * Library ABI handling and support for parallel installation of multiple >>> versions (as discussed in another thread [1]). >>> >>> Marcus >>> >>> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.java/6537 >> Thanks for mentioning it. I second that notion. >> >> manfred >> >> > > We solved this by installing to /usr/share/<pkg>-<slot> where slot is > roughly the ABI (we increase it every time a new version breaks > something using the library).
That's interesting - a compromise between keeping *every* version of the Jar, and just the latest. A couple of questions spring to mind: * How do you detect when a new version breaks the ABI? It seems quite complicated. Do you use a tool to compare the classes / method signatures, etc, or do you only bump the slot number if an application fails? * Supposing I (as an end-user) download an application (not packaged by gentoo) which requires version 1.5 of foo.jar; how would I translate that to a slot number? Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
