[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Library soversion numbers in SuiteSparse
Daniel Rus
daniel at uponeits.com
Tue Feb 5 12:28:31 UTC 2008
Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Daniel Rus Morales <danirus at tol-project.org> [2008-02-05 10:04]:
>
>
>> Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>>
>>> I am afraid this will take much longer than is need for getting the gfortran
>>> transition into lenny. However, it does not cost anything to ask. Would
>>> you be willing to contact the upstream author on this issue?
>>>
>>>
>> I will do this, but you are right, it will take more time, so we need
>> another approach in the meanwhile.
>>
>
> Okay, I think we should go ahead with my proposal. As I wrote in my first
> post, my proposal is ugly, in the sense that we invent arbitrary soversion
> numbers for the libraries, but I cannot see another simple way of coping
> with the problem.
>
>
>> Yes, I agree with you. Your proposal means more work but seems to be the
>> better way by now.
>>
>
> Why do you say my proposal "means more work"? Any other solutions that I
> could devise seemed to be imply more work. I my be wrong though.
>
Yes, I meant more work than either using a plane soname (bad) or
relaying on the one chosen by the upstream author (not achievable right
now). But definitely I agree with yours. :-)
I'd be glad to help you with this stuff. You said you wanted to go ahead
with this, but if can give you any help, please tell me. Meanwhile (this
next weekend) I want to prepare the libsuitesparse-metis package.
Cheers and Thanks
Daniel
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