[antlr-interest] libantlr3c version

[Jim Idle]

Personally I prefer the versioning, however I had a lot of complaints
that people were trying to use the versioned shared libraries with
packages and systems that could not support it, hence I took it out. It
seems that not having versioned libraries is less of a problem for
people than having versioned libraries - though I suspect that in many
cases this is actually a lack of understanding. If I ever get time to
document what to do with versioned libraries then I might go back to
them.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of John Ridgway
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 9:03 AM
> To: antlr-interest
> Cc: John Ridgway
> Subject: [antlr-interest] libantlr3c version
> 
> Friends -
> Is there a good reason why the Antlr 3 C runtime library is built
> with the -avoid-version flag?  I'm trying to build a Fink package
> description for it, and Fink wants the version information in the
> library.  If there's a good reason then I'll document it and leave it
> alone.  If there's no good reason is there a chance that it will get
> changed?  What would the appropriate versioning information be --
> since I can patch things for the Fink installation.
> 
> For those who don't know -- Fink provides an easy way to install a
> lot of useful software on MacOS X boxes, but it needs appropriate
> packaging information.
> 
> Peace
> - John