[Kde-imaging] Document on allowing parallel installation of libkipi

[Achim Bohnet]

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 04:14, Jean-Michel FAYARD wrote:
> Hello to all, 
> one thing that has not yet been discussed (at least I think so) is how
> things will not break together. Digikam, kimdaba, gwenview, showimg et
> al. will have different release time, and at some point in the future
> will likely expect different incompatible version of libkipi
> 
> This document from Havoc Pannington of RedHat fame explain a way to
> allow easily downstream packagers to do parallel installation of
> libraries. If you don't know it yet, it's worth a read.
> 
>    http://ometer.com/parallel.html

Nice document.  Nevertheless step 1 should be to make sure that binary
compatibility is broken only when really necessary.  Do and don't
to keep binary compatibility in C++ and KDE are at:

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/devel-binarycompatibility.html

Achim
> 
> Cheers
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