On 5/4/20 11:07 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> If perhaps your reason for fusing ABIs is that you are not a fan of
> perl, then I would be happy to help write the perl code for a dh_* tool
> which handles all 4 ABIs.
It was a theoretical exercise. I'm not a fan of four virtual packages.
One is already close to an overkill, surely at this point in time.
There could be some point in two, one taking the first number and a
second to join the rest or all four. The first is enough for packages
that provide foreign extensions to SWI-Prolog. This allows creating
Debian packages for most of the add-ons. The second is needed for saved
states. Omitting the first number is possible for states that do not
contain foreign extensions. It is very unlikely there will ever be a
version update that changes the first number and leaves the others
intact though: the stability goes down from left to right (which is why
the last two are fingerprints rather than version numbers: I forgot to
update them too often).
Cheers --- Jan
