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Re: Neon packaging of multiple versions
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Max Bowsher <maxb at ukf dot net>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:50:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Neon packaging of multiple versions
- References: <196801c5b481$89982e80$5304a8c0@chimaera>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Neon is a library that is still in development, with an API which is
> still evolving. Thus, it is necessary to package multiple versions to
> support programs which will not always build against the latest API.
>
> For the most part this is not a problem. The current libpng packages use
> the alternatives system to manage exactly this kind of issue. However,
> the complication on which I am asking for advice is this: neon includes
> manpages. The alternatives system doesn't seem like a good way to handle
> this, because there are many manpages, and the exact list of names isn't
> guaranteed to be constant across multiple versions of neon.
Ugh. Couldn't this be installed into /usr/share/neon-*/man, and handled
by judicious manipulation of the MANPATH?
> Unless anyone has a better idea, I think I will have to handle this by
> inserting the version into the manpage file names - for example, the
> manpage ne_malloc would be installed as ne24_malloc by the 0.24.x
> package, and as ne25_malloc by the 0.25.x package.
It might be a bit more intuitive to use ne_malloc-0.24 and ne_malloc-0.25.
Alternatively, you could stick the version into the section number (i.e.,
ne_malloc from section 3-0.24 or 3-0.25). That way, users can select the
right manpages by using the -S flag.
Just some ideas...
Igor
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