[2141] in Release_7.7_team
Re: 2000-02-09 meeting minutes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Feb 15 18:51:20 2000
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 15 Feb 2000 18:51:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:09:05 -0500 (EST)"
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<ghudson@MIT.EDU> (Greg Hudson) writes:
> We are vaguely planning to import the gtk toolkit for Athena release
> 8.4. However, it would really want to be a shared library, and there
> is an issue with shared libraries we haven't considered yet: we have
> to carry around old shared libraries from release to release to keep
> locker software working, and on Linux we have to decide what package
> old versions of shared libraries come in.
FWIW, Debian deals with this issue by encoding library version numbers
in package names.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
