4.0 -> 4.1 binary compatibility

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 24.10.07 19:17:12, Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > > Right.  So as soon as the user upgrades kdelibs to 4.1 they have to
> > > upgrade the rest of KDE all at once to 4.1.
> >
> > Um, no. Only if they want to uninstall 4.0, they would have to remove
> > all things which depend on 4.0.
> 
> So the plan is to have two kdelibs installed, a 4.0 one and a 4.1 one?

There is no plan. Also that would be impossible with the current state
of things because both would have files that have the same installed
path. So you'd either also need to remove all binaries in kdelibs to
someting like foo41 or install kdelibs 4.1 into a separate prefix and
not /usr.

Andreas

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