On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 00:59 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Cross posted (from fedora users to fedora-devel ... maybe we need a > fedora-philosophy list ? ;) > > On 12/07/2004 12:34:23 PM, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > > Paul Howarth wrote: > >> http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/sysutils/Mirroring/compat-libcurl-7.11.2-2.i386.rpm > > > > I'd kind of expect this RPM to be part of FC3 distro, but it wasn't. > > I agree. > I've had to package a couple compat libraries myself (libgal2 and > libgtkhtml3) as software I needed refused to compile against the fc3 > (gnome 2.8) versions, but did fine against the fc2 (gnome 2.6) > versions. Doesn't a compat library just contain the shared libraries themselves (and maybe some documentation)? It wouldn't help in compiling applications that won't build on later versions of the library - I've never seen a compat-xyz-devel library... the compat library just helps run binaries built against the older library. > I'm not sure they should be installed by default on a fc3 system - > compat-libstdc++ does because fc3 ships with software that wants it (I > think OO.o) compat-libstdc++ is only installed if needed, as are the other compat- libraries. > - but what would be *nice* is if a fedora-compat repository > were somewhat maintained that included binary compat shared libraries > for cases such as these, where a third party package wants an older > version of a shared library. Yes, that would be useful. > If possible, the compat packages should be built in fc3 systems and > link against current fc3 libraries themselves when they can (ie build > the compat packages on fc3) Agreed. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
