[gdal-dev] Re: Linux Binary Release

[Buchan Milne]

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Frank Warmerdam wrote:
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| gdal_dev_reader wrote:
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|>hi,
|>
|>any reason for libgdal.1.1.so to be named that way (as opposed to
|>libgdal.so.1.1 that seems more standard, at least on linux?) and to
|>have no SONAME?
|>
|>regards,
|>alessandro
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| Alessandro,
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| There is no compellingly good reason, but basically I name it differently
| to make it clear I am not using the normal shared library mechanisms for
| version control.
|

So how should people:
1)Get gdal into a linux distro (where packaging standards require the
ability to have multiple versions of the same library, but of different
SONAME).
2)Ensure that they are using the same API as the binary shared library?

I would like to see standard shared library support. Is there are good
reason NOT to use it (of course, the library version does not have to
correspond to the software version anyway, look at gconf ;-)).

This is why I would like to see it:
http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/grass/

Regards,
Buchan


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