further coinstallability

[Nicolás Alvarez]

2013/11/26 Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org>:
> On Tuesday 26 November 2013 15:04:09 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
>> Le samedi 23 novembre 2013 18:19:53 Jonathan Riddell a écrit :
>> > some libs with an soname of 5 in kdelibs4 keep an soname of 5 in KF5.  I
>> > found libkhtml.so.5 which is now libKHtml.so.5 which will clash for
>> > package names which are all lower case.  There may be others.
>
> Ah damned... This problem solved itself since all the libraries with a +1
> version are gone... all except one in fact. Really overlooked khtml there. :-/
>
>> Maybe the name of the lib could be changed so that the KF5 version of KHTML
>> becomes libKhtml5.so?
>
> Yes, let's do that for khtml.
>
>> This would be similar to what Qt5 libs do: they all start with "libQt5".
>
> Makes me wonder, is it something we'd like to do too? Having all our libs
> named libKf5Foo? I don't think I have an opinion either way.

Windows has no sonames, and in kdelibs4 the files are called
khtml.dll, etc. with no version number. I think they should get one
(eg. khtml5.dll), for the same reason that sonames are
useful/important in Unix.

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