On 2008-04-03 10:23+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-02 16:30]: > >> Assuming this really is a serious issue on Mac OS X, the obvious solution is >> to deal with it by bumping the major version number of the above libraries >> (and libLASi) from 0 to 1. I would especially like Rafael and Andrew to >> comment on that solution since there may be Debian packaging implications. >> For example, that version bump would incorrectly imply on Linux there was a >> major API change for those libraries. OTOH, I suspect nobody would notice >> that unnecessary major version bump since it is likely PLplot is the only >> software that actually uses those libraries (and libLASi). > > Would it be too complicated to maintain separate version numbers for Mac OS > X and the rest of the world? That would be my preferred solution.
I would prefer not to have different library version numbers for different platforms since that is potentially confusing for everybody and propagates indefinitely. However, before doing a major version bump for the csirocsa, csironn, plplotgnome2, plplotwxwidgets, plplotada, and libLASi libraries for all platforms, I want to make sure that the step does not involve a large amount of work by the distribution maintainers. So I would like to know how much actual work would be involved for Andrew and you for Debian (and Orion for Fedora) to deal with a major version bump for the above libraries assuming no distribution software other than PLplot itself depends on those libraries. Are we talking about a half hour in total to adjust the library version numbers in distribution control files or is the process much more complicated (or even much less complicated) than that to do a major version bump? Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
