[Kde-bindings] qyoto libraries ?

[Richard Dale]

On Wednesday 16 July 2008 13:45:02 Arno Rehn wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 July 2008 14:24:06 Helio Chissini de Castro wrote:
> > Hi people.
> >
> > Today we have this three entries in libdir:
> > libqyoto.so
> > libqyotoshared.so
> > libqscintilla-sharp.so
> >
> > This is suppose to be modules, libraries or a special mono module ?
> >
> > My question is:
> > If they are libraries, we're missing proper soname,soversion and avoid
> > carry devel info requirements ( yes, packagers are boring )
> > If they are modules, should be under libdir/kde4/
> > If they are special mono modules, should go elsewhere.
> >
> > Can someone give me a hint or an idea ? I can fix it with proper guidance
> > ( if there something to fix. of course )
>
> I don't think there's something to fix. libqyotoshared.so is a shared
> library that contains often used code and against which the individual
> libraries for the binding modules link. So this is right in libdir.
> libqyoto.so and libqscintilla.so initialize the smoke smoke lib needed by
> the module and provide additional functionality needed by it. So they are
> modules really, but they can't go into libdir/kde4 since the we need to
> P/Invoke into them and Mono only looks for libraries in the linker dirs
> directly (afaik). And I don't know if they really need soversions - we have
> no real versioning scheme and you can't have multiple versions of them
> installed anyway (because of the P/Invoke thing..)
> It's the same thing with the QtRuby libs, btw.
Well libqyotoshared.so is a normal lib installed in the lib dir and I think 
that should have a version, and similarly libqtrubyshared.so should too.

-- Richard