CLucene version for strigi should be =0.9.16 ?

Jos van den Oever jvdoever at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 10:39:09 GMT 2007


2007/3/23, David Jarvie <lists at astrojar.org.uk>:
> > What do we gain with that move?
> > CLucene is rather big and until we actually see a problem, this is not
> > necessary.
> > For now we require the exact version 0.9.16a which is the last stable
> > version.
>
> Presumably that means that people may have to install an additional copy
> of CLucene for KDE, if their system uses a different version. Or are
> different versions binary compatible even if not source compatible? If an
> exact version is required once KDE4 is actually released, packagers will
> have to package CLucene as part of KDE to avoid clashes with whatever
> version the rest of the system uses. Not a very satisfactory state of
> affairs.
If there is no source compatibility there can not be binary compatibility.
For most distros, the main reason for CLucene is Strigi at the moment,
so this should not be a problem.




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