sonames for liboctave & co?

[Soeren Sonnenburg-18]

Dear all,

would it be possible to use sonames for octave (and update them
properly) at each release in octave?

It would be much easier for me when maintaining shogun (that may wrap
octave) to ensure that it still works while liboctave already undergoes
abi/api changes.

Searching the web I've found a debian bugreport about it (
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510579 ) and already a
request on the octave ml...

I think it would be rather easy to do (even if you in almost all cases
have to increase the soname: I've collected instructions when to
increase the soname here
http://www.shogun-toolbox.org/doc/soname.html )...

Thanks for considering,
Soeren
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[John W. Eaton-3]

On 25-Oct-2009, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:

| would it be possible to use sonames for octave (and update them
| properly) at each release in octave?
|
| It would be much easier for me when maintaining shogun (that may wrap
| octave) to ensure that it still works while liboctave already undergoes
| abi/api changes.
|
| Searching the web I've found a debian bugreport about it (
| http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510579 ) and already a
| request on the octave ml...
|
| I think it would be rather easy to do (even if you in almost all cases
| have to increase the soname: I've collected instructions when to
| increase the soname here
| http://www.shogun-toolbox.org/doc/soname.html )...

I'm in the process of switching Octave's build system to use automake
and libtool.  After that change is made, I'd consider a patch to set
the soname for the libraries.

jwe
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[Soeren Sonnenburg-18]

On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 18:29 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 25-Oct-2009, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
>
> | would it be possible to use sonames for octave (and update them
> | properly) at each release in octave?
> |
> | It would be much easier for me when maintaining shogun (that may wrap
> | octave) to ensure that it still works while liboctave already undergoes
> | abi/api changes.
> |
> | Searching the web I've found a debian bugreport about it (
> | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510579 ) and already a
> | request on the octave ml...
> |
> | I think it would be rather easy to do (even if you in almost all cases
> | have to increase the soname: I've collected instructions when to
> | increase the soname here
> | http://www.shogun-toolbox.org/doc/soname.html )...
>
> I'm in the process of switching Octave's build system to use automake
> and libtool.  After that change is made, I'd consider a patch to set
> the soname for the libraries.

Sounds great :-)


Soeren
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