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@xxxxxxxxxx>
