[Pkg-ace-devel] Plan for ACE+TAO upload

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,
Important bugs:
>>
>> 1. *.so links are packed into *-dev packages. This prevents using
>> ACE_Service_Configurator, for example dynamic iop protocols (!), when
>> only runtime libraries are installed. Either, we should patch a
>> Service_Configurator to  look for *.so.5.7.7 libraries or just move
>> *.so links from dev packages into runtime ones. I prefer the second
>> option as it definitively solves the problem for next ACE revisions.
>> What is your opinion?
>
> I'd go for the ACE_Service_Configurator patching. I think that's what
> patch 34 was supposed to fix.

Why not fix this the correct way? I think ACE service config has to be
extended to optionally pass a version number to service config which it
does also check. The approach to patch things while packaging is really
not maintainable to my idea.

Johnny