Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:50:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/7382: Pine4 does not co-exist with older installed version of pine. Message-ID: <199807232350.QAA24539@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/7382; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, winter@jurai.net Cc: Subject: Re: ports/7382: Pine4 does not co-exist with older installed version of pine. Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 02:43:33 +0300 Hi, First of all I confirm that pine3 and pine4 cannot share their libraries... Second: as you know the UW Pine fellows officially discontinued the support for any pre-4.00 versions of Pine and they will support only the 4.x branch; do we want to support Pine 3.96 or do we endorse UW's strategy ? I'd vote for providing (at least for the moment) support for both the old (& stable) 3.96 version and for the new (& quite buggy) 4.x branch. Allowing the users to install both versions on their system is a good ideea indeed, as many people will like to upgrade to 4.x and keep their "good old" 3.96 at least for a while... To make this happen a library version number bumping is needed; due to the fact that the newer library is incompatible with the older and because there might be many 4.xx versions (BTW, we should start talking about 4.02, there isn't any 4.01 anymore), I'd choose between libpico.2.0 (the standard way) or libpico4.so.1.0 (if you think the 5.x and > branches will come too soon). For the moment I'll work with libpico.so.2.0 -- we can always later go for to the libpicoX.so.x.y scheme if needed. I already started to work on it, I'll keep you both posted... Thanks for the ideea and for the original port, Matthew ! :) Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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