On 15-Nov-2005, Falk Hueffner wrote: | The difference is that the *ABI* changes frequently.
I think that happens for a lot of software. | This will break horribly if the headers become out of sync with the | library. You absolutely need to provide matching headers. Yes, of course. So maybe a different solution is needed? | I'm not really convinced. The problem is that you'll need a new | package name each time you upgrade, and this will leave lots of stale | library packages behind and generally be a hassle. Why is it a hassle? How often are new releases of glpk happening? Every few weeks? Twice a year? Does the ABI change with every release? | If the goal is only | to provide a solution for octave, it would probably be easier to just | add a copy of glpk's source into the octave tarball and install it as | glpk-octave or something. No. I do not want to include external packages in Octave. Doing that would definitely be a hassle. jwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
