On 2008-04-03 18:51+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-03 08:50]:
>
>> I would prefer not to have different library version numbers for different
>> platforms since that is potentially confusing for everybody and propagates
>> indefinitely.
>
> You could do this in an automatic manner in cmake. My knowledge of cmake is
> quite fragmentary, but it should be possible to keep the current numbering
> version and, conditionally on the system being macosx, just increment the
> major version.
>
> With cmake 2.6 it will be possible to do the following:
>
> set(csirocsa_SOVERSION 0)
> if(APPLE)
> MATH(EXPR ${csirocsa_SOVERSION} "${csirocsa_SOVERSION} + 1")
> endif(APPLE)
> set(csirocsa_VERSION ${csirocsa_SOVERSION}.0.1)
>
> This causes absolutely no confusion, because the library version numbers are
> only visible inside a distribution.
Possibly. However, to help the PLplot upstream developers make the
decision, please answer my question about how much practical Debian
packaging work is required by you to do a major version bump for each of the
libraries I mentioned. I assume its fairly negligible since major version
changes do happen from time to time for most libraries, but if that
assumption is not correct, let us know.
Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
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