Re: [avail for test] readline-4.2-2

["Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Charles S. Wilson wrote:

> I've just uploaded readline-4.2-2 as a test release.  Readline is a
> library that provides user-input functions complete with history
> functions and line-editing capabilities.  


Any objections if I remove the test designation from this release? 
4.2-2 contains both the old dll's (cygreadline4.dll and cyghistory4.dll) 
so that old .exe's will continue to work, and provides the new dll's 
(cygreadline4.2.dll and cyghistory4.2.dll) which newly linked programs 
will use. (The new dll's reflect the new 4.2 API, so it is possible that 
programs may require source code modification to link with the new 4.2 
libraries.)

Also, is cygreadline4.2.dll okay, or should I use a different 
nomenclature?  cygreadline4-2.dll?  cygreadline5.dll? (and break the 
relationship between dll version number and source package numbering).

I'm actually leaning toward cygreadline5.dll, since readline-4.3 may 
have the same API as 4.2, so the 4.3's dll may actually have to keep the 
4.2 package's dll name, and be called cygreadline4.2.dll which is VERY 
confusing.  If you just state, "DLL versioning has no relation to source 
package versioning" then it's okay that readline-4.2's dll and 
readline-4.3's dll are both "cygreadline5.dll".  So, it won't take much 
convincing for me to release readline-4.2-3 with a "cygreadline5.dll" 
instead of "cygreadline4.2.dll"...

One day, of course, libtool will work well with cygwin dll's, and many 
dll's will get renamed to something like cygfoo-2-3-1.dll using the 
libtool library versioning mechanism, I'm sure.  But that's WAY in the 
future. One thing at a time.

--Chuck



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