[Pkg-octave-devel] Bugs in octave2.1

[Thomas Weber]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:01:05PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> With GNU ld, I think all you need to do is use the -soname=NAME
> option.  Adding that to the Octave build process should be fairly
> simple.  I think the hard part is doing the right thing when the
> internals change.  Currently, we don't care much.  Each new version of
> Octave comes with a new set of libraries and we only have a weak
> promise about compatibility with any previous versions.

Changing the SONAME with every version in the development tree wouldn't
be a problem at all. What I don't want is distribution-specific
versioning, ie we doing it one way, Fedora in another and Gentoo yet
again something different.

Of course, stability in the stable releases would be nice, but is not
necessary. This is more about tracking against which version of Octave a
specific package was compiled.

	Thomas