Thanks for the excellent tool! I'm trying to package it for Fink
(http://fink.sf.net), but there's something weird about the
versioning of the library.
Currently both -release and -version-info are used for linking
libevent, which is unlikely to be what you want to do. Most libraries
are sometimes compatible with past versions, so that a program that
links against 1.0 should still work with 1.1. They should use just -
version-info, then programs that link against it will still work when
it's updated. Some libraries are never compatible with past versions
and they use -release, then means users need multiple versions
installed in parallel.
Using both flags combines the incompatibility of -release with the
ugly library names of -version-info, you get the worst of both
worlds. This is very confusing to packagers, look at the weird
structure of the Ubuntu package for example: http://
packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?
searchmode=filelist&word=libevent1&version=dapper&arch=i386
It would be appreciated if you could choose one of the two flags to use.
Thanks,
Dave Vasilevsky
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