boost-1.31 include dir

[Shahms King]

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 11:02, Satya Arjunan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have used the boost-1.31 packages from the Fedora development branch. 
> There are some significant changes. I would like to know what is the 
> reason for creating an additional version directory such as 
> /usr/include/boost-1_31/boost as opposed to the old one, 
> /usr/include/boost. Additionally, I think it would be useful to create a 
> soft link libboost_python.so to point to libboost_python-gcc.so  (and 
> others) for backwards compatibility.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> satya

Can't comment on the compatibility links, but the versioned include
directories are almost certainly done to make multiple versions of the
library parallel-installable.  Library interfaces change and evolve and
sometimes it takes the applications written against them a while to
change and they don't all change at the same rate.
-- 
Shahms King <shahms at shahms.com>