[Review 2 - Good to go] gd: A graphics library for fast image creation

[Nicholas Wourms]

Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com wrote:
>>>>>>"Gareth" == Gareth Pearce <tilps@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>     >> Hmm... just noticed that you have libgd2 and libgd2-devel... I was under
>     >> the impression that you should stick the DLL version in the libgd
>     >> package name, which you did, but I thought that the DLL version number
>     >> was *not* included in the -devel package name.
>     >> 
>     >> It seems to me that the devel package should be called:
>     >> 
>     >> libgd-devel
>     >> 
>     >> 
>     >> Anyone care to comment on this?
> 
>     Gareth> It would be nice to say that versioned devels are never necessary, but
>     Gareth> unless the internals of the package are designed so as to be able to coexist
>     Gareth> with future version devels (like libgd2 would be), there isn't any point
>     Gareth> versioning them, and hence should not be so.
> 

Volker,

I think the best way to determine this is whether or not the package 
installs versioned includes and static/import libs.  Also, the naming of 
the libraries & include dirs is important.  In the case of freetype, 
freetype-1 is libttf whereas freetype2 is libfreetype.  Even if it 
doesn't, it pays to check out the Mandrake/RedHat/Debian packages to see 
how they are doing it.  Sometimes it may be necessary to make a package 
have co-existing versions, especially in the case of databases where src 
API's can change, causing some existing sources not to compile/work. 
Also, it is pretty much a given that most GNOME libraries are going to 
need to be versioned.  The key is to plan ahead now, before you are 
stuck providing kludges or empty-package work-arounds.

Cheers,
Nicholas