On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:04 PM, John Sellens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I've long found it disappointing the way shared libraries are dealt with in linux and other OSs.
To me, the obvious solutions is to install every library into a directory named for the version, or name the library itself with a version number. Then, if you wish, a default version can be chosen and linked/symlinked into the default directory.
That way, a program that wants a particular version gives the compiler/linker the appropriate search path to find the preferred version.
How do you ensure security updates happen everywhere, or that you are not linking to an insecure version? What about old software which is no longer maintained? Also work is not duplicated? Dhaval