XFree 4.2.1 + fontconfig-2

[Alan Hourihane]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:32:27 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> 
> > How about a seperate package call X11-compat for this?  Just seems
> > like a waste of space for people who don't care.
> 
> Good idea
> 
> > library name used on *nix: libXfoo.0.0.so
> 
> actually libXfoo.so.0.0, everything else will also break the library 
> versioning.
> 
> > *for Cygwin:
> > ============
> > 
> > runtime name:
> > -------------
> > 
> > "cyg" + <basename> + "." + <major> + "." + <minor> + "." + "dll"
> > [i.e. cygXfoo.0.0.dll]
> 
> Any minor version bump will break older clients. They will request
> cygXfoo.0.0.dll but cygXfoo.0.1.dll is installed and is sufficient.
> 
> if we name it only cygXfoo.0.dll, can the cygwin installer make sure
> that at least package foo-x.y-1 is installed and not only foo-x.y-0
> for all packages requiring the new version?

I think in this instance that windows doesn't help us much. I think
it should be fine if we had say libXfoo.0.dll installed (which was
really v0.0), but then we released Xfoo-0.1.tar.gz which installed
another libXfoo.0.dll (which is now v0.1). I.E We only ever report the
major version number and forget about the minor one, as in the case
of the minor number we are always backwards compatible.

Alan.