From: Warren Young
Date: March 19 2007 8:23pm
Subject: Re: RPM packaging and library versioning
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Jack Eidsness wrote:
> 
>   I haven't made time to find a decent example, but I have a vague 
> memory of some packages having a "-compat" counterpart, that 
> simultaneously meets my package management expectations and allows 
> multiple library versions to coexist.  

That would imply that we'd ship an RPM containing many versions of the 
MySQL++ library, one for each major version we've shipped.  I don't 
think we have a big enough problem to justify the labor that would 
require.  That's more appropriate for more widely used libraries like 
libmysqlclient, glibc, etc.