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["Dufflebunk" <dufflebunk AT go-nix.ca>]

This has been discussed several times on this list. In a nutshell:
It would be nice.
It would be a large modification to the scripts
Versioning has no standard. ie < is not a well defined symbol w.r.t.
versions.
What to do about several versions providing /sbin/foo.

The two last problems have solutions, although perhaps not elegant ;)
However, the changes necessary to properly add it in is large enough that I
think it would be better to wait until after The Great Rewrite (coming Real
Soon Now).

--------- Original Message --------
From: eric AT sandall.us
To:  Source Mage - Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [SM-Discuss] Versioned dependencies
Date: 02/01/03 15:53

>
> I think SMGL needs to add versioned dependencies to its abilities, though
> this will make both sorcery and spell-writing more complex.  My main
> reason is for spells like GNUCash (requires an older version of guile).
> Many of our spells already partially support this (automake, gtk+*, etc.)
> as they install into ${SPELL}-${VERSION} directories, then create a
> symlink from ${SPELL}.  We would need to remove this symlink option and
> add (probably to the configure) the location of the versioned libraries
> the spell requires.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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