New Pixman Naming Scheme

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Tue Aug 7 10:22:06 PDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 18:25 +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> 
> The name does not imply that there are plans to actually release such
> an incompatible version; it is just insurance against pain *if* it
> becomes necessary. 

You can always go from pixman to pixman-2 too, so pixman-1 doesn't buy
you anything right now.  It's just cleaner to keep the directory name
the same as the pkg-config module name.  And of course all these do not
solve the problem that you can't have both versions in the same process
anyway.

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