Jeremy Lea once wrote:
> 3. GNOME problems.
> a. GNOME has no release engineering. The libraries break APIs for
> every pico number bump just about. Or they fix bugs and remove
> workarounds at higher levels. Also ESR's $%^*@ advice of release
> early and release often means that they often manage three
> releases in a 48 hour period.
[...]
> 1. Use -soname for binaries. Add this to $LDFLAGS or something, to get
> a version number installed into a binary then create extra magic or
> a script to test this in the DEPENDS. I don't know if this is
> possible, but there must be some field available which can be got
> with either file(1) or objdump(1). Same idea for scripts.
I'd like to voice my opposition to this. While it maybe an acceptable
way to work around poor (or non-existant) release engineering of
SOME software, making this a rule may defeat one of the major purposes
of shared libraries: drop-in replacement. Think of libXaw3d, for
example. What's wrong with different filenames for different libs?
-mi
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