[haiku-development] Re: alpha release window ?

  • From: Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:04:09 +0200

David McPaul wrote:

2009/8/11 Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

Oliver Tappe wrote:

Hi Brecht,

On 2009-08-11 at 09:40:10 [+0200], Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On a related note. How do you see Haiku handling multiple versions of a
library? If all bundles are mounted under /boot/common, they would need
to have a unique namme (libfoo-1.2.3.so). For an application to use a
particular version, we would need to virtually link a library into the
app's lib search path, as libfoo.so. I hope you agree we don't want to
have apps looking for a specific version of a library (libfoo-1.2.3.so)?

Hm, but if apps aren't looking for specific versions of a lib, how would
there ever be the need to install multiple versions of a library? If all
apps are just requiring libfoo.so then the version shouldn't matter, right?

Due to libs breaking compatibility even across minor versions, it is
impossible to predict which versions of a library will an app work with.


Then they are no longer libraries IMHO.

Apps that can only work with a specific version of a library should
include that version in their local lib directory.
At the release of the application, it is not possible to predict whether future versions of a library will be compatible or not. 

Regards,
Brecht

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