Re: [PATCH 00/12] Recipe upgrades, fixes and additions

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 11:03 -0800, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 11/08/2011 06:18 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 16:10 -0800, Joshua Lock wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >> Here's a series of patches I developed whilst trying to play around with some
> >> Clutter based software.
> >>
> >> The interesting pieces may be:
> >> Clutter 1.8 series recipes - do we want/need to keep clutter 1.6 around?
> >> Are we OK with continuing to namespace the clutter recipes by clutter
> >> version?
> >
> > Yes, I think this makes sense.
> 
> Why do we want to continue the clutter the namespace with version 
> numbers?  Was this not for a past issue with mis-matched API/ABI?
> 
> If that problem is solved, then next remove that version info.

Clutter produces libraries with a very specific namespace so you can
parallel install clutter 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8. Applications compile against
a given version of the library.

Having the major lib version as part of the package name therefore makes
sense. There aren't a lot of projects that do this but this one does and
it continues to make sense to namespace it accordingly.

Cheers,

Richard