On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 09:10 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > The path /usr/lib/pulse-x.y is non-standard, both considering that > other software more often than not have a non-versioned directory > under /usr/lib, and that we ourselves don't use "pulse-x.y" anywhere > else. > > It could still be reasonable to have more than one version of PA > installed, so let's have the x.y at the module directory instead. Thanks, this is a good change. I don't entirely agree with the commit message, however. It's not reasonable to have multiple PA versions installed under the same prefix. Modules are only a part of the set of the files we install, so if we wanted to support multiple versions under the same prefix, we'd have to include a version number in all file paths. I'm not sure if we have very good reasons to use the version number in any paths. I guess it somewhat reduces the chance of linking to modules of an earlier PA installation, but if you don't build PA from source, the distro will remove the old modules anyway, and if you do build PA from source, then there's still risk of linking to old and incompatible modules if you install a new version during the same development cycle, since the version number hasn't changed between the old and new version. I think it's reasonable to keep the version number in the module directory name just because of the "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" principle - we have had the version number there before, and it hasn't caused trouble. -- Tanu
