Martin Costabel wrote:
> Kevin Horton wrote:
> []
>> Please confirm that your lie and modglue packages will be added to
>> fink sometime in the near future. For now we will use the ones from
>> your exp directory.
>
> There is no real obstacle to adding them, except that I have done
> virtually no tests. Just confirm that they are not destroying your hard
> disk immediately, or even working OK, and I will add them to unstable.
As dmacks points out, there is one problem with the modglue package: The
compatibility_version of the dylibs is 0.0.0.
This means that *no* compatibility between successive versions is
guaranteed, and according to Fink policy one would need to change the
package name (not only the version and revision) every time a new
version comes out - and keep the -shlibs package of the old version with
the old name around. I don't know how often this modglue library is
going to be updated; if it's once every 5 years, there is no problem,
but if it happens every couple of months, this would be a nightmare.
There are two solutions for this problem (besides closing the eyes and
crossing fingers): Either one does not put the modglue and
modglue-shlibs packages into Fink as standalone packages, but includes
modglue in the cadabra package. In this way, the dylibs become purely
local and the Fink shlibs policy does not have to be applied.
Or one asks the author to provide a true compatibility_version. This
only requires changing one line in src/Makefile: In the definition of
LPHASE, instead of "-release ${RELEASE}", one would put "-version-info
1:0:0" or something. But it would also mean that the author would need
to think about compatibility issues between successive versions.
Finally: The md5sum of modglue-1.2.tar.gz is no longer correct; the
tarball must have changed on the server.
--
Martin
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