>>>>> "Xiaofan" == Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]> writes:
Xiaofan> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Xiaofan Chen
Xiaofan> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Saturday, June 18, 2011, Uwe Bonnes
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Xiaofan" == Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]> writes:
>>> Xiaofan> Right now. the location of libftdi-1.0 header ftdi.h
>>> is Xiaofan> different from libftdi-0.1x. For libftdi-1.0, the
>>> header is in Xiaofan> /usr/local/include/libftdi/ftdi.h whereas
>>> for libftdi-0.1x it Xiaofan> is in /usr/local/include/ftdi.h.
>>>
>>> Xiaofan> I am not so sure what is the reason and whether this is
>>> a good Xiaofan> idea or not.
>>>
>>> What is your proposal how to handle different versions of the
>>> library headers?
>> IMHO different name is the best, I.e., using libftdi.h for 1.0.
>>
Xiaofan> I think we have gone through one discussion last time. My
Xiaofan> suggestion is not to let libftdi-1.0 API limited by the
Xiaofan> existing libftdi API and API breakage is okay. Just like the
Xiaofan> case of libusb-1.0 versus libusb-0.1.
Xiaofan> In this case, it is better to have different name and both can
Xiaofan> coexist with each other and they can also exist in the same
Xiaofan> default directory.
Xiaofan> The library for libftdi-1.0 can be libftdi-1.0.so and
Xiaofan> libftdi-1.0.a to differentiate from libftdi-0.1x.
I see a lot of constructs like
/usr/include/<libname>-x.y/<libname>/<include files>
on my system
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