On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:00:48AM -0700, David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote: > John, > > > This set of cases is explicitly setting precedent WRT how > > to install FOSS components that require the ability to have > > multiple co-installed versions. > > Actually, I thought this case was following the precdent that Perl > introduced in PSARC 1999/192. In that case, a directory structure was > introduced along the same exact lines as what was proposed here. > > /usr/perl5/[version]/<subdirectory>
But the OpenSSL cases have set a different precedent. Thus I think a new BP would help. In particular advice on DLL hell avoidance would help (e.g., text in man pages indicating whether it is safe, and how to safely do it, to mix multiple versions of some component in a larger application). Nico --
