[WebKit-devel] symlink to libkwebkit.so.1

alekcejk at googlemail.com alekcejk at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 1 14:40:23 CEST 2010


> On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 18:29:56 alekcejk at googlemail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In previous snapshots there was symlink:
> > /usr/lib/libkwebkit.so.1 -> libkwebkit.so.1.0.0
> > 
> > But why in r1143138 symlink is missing?
> > Only /usr/lib/libkwebkit.so.0.9.5 there.
> 
> Because the version number has been updated to reflect the actual version
> number of the library. You have to remove the old symlink manually.

If kwebkit ABI was changed then other SOVERSION  can be provided.
For example .so.2:

 /usr/lib/libkwebkit.so.2 -> libkwebkit.so.0.9.5

If kwebkit ABI will be not changed then no sense to change SOVERSION with 
every kwebkitpart update.

It will be hard to maintain kdenetwork, kdebase, konq-plugins if
kwebkit SOVERSION will changed with every kwebkitpart update.

Please fix this before release. 

Alexey Kurov <nucleo at fedoraproject.org>


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