[Fedora-packaging] Should Scintilla be package as a shared library ?

Wed Jul 1 12:42:58 UTC 2009

Hi,

On Wednesday, 01 July 2009 at 07:30, Remi Collet wrote:
> Hi,
[...]
> What sould I do ?
> 
> 	- package scintilla as a shared lib
> 
> (this will imply rebuilding all applications on scintilla update and
> probably issue with applications using different version)
> 
> or
> 	- package MySQL Workbench with the bundled scintilla
> 
> (the simple solution, but against good pratices)

3. Ask upstream to add an option to build a shared lib. You can also make it
   easier for them by sending a patch.

While there's no official ABI versioning, use something like
libscintilla-VERSION.so.0 for SONAME to ensure ABI version changes
with scintilla version (if necessary). You probably know how to track
ABI changes.

Regards,
R.

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