[Kde-bindings] qyoto libraries ?

[Arno Rehn]

On Wednesday 16 July 2008 14:47:47 Richard Dale wrote:
> 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.
Right, but which version number should they have? Same as KDE's version -  4.1 
-  or something different?

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Arno Rehn
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