boost-1.31 include dir
Shahms King
shahms at shahms.com
Fri Mar 12 16:06:10 UTC 2004
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>
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