Naming convention for versioned libraries

[Ken Brown]

On 6/12/2017 1:15 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2017-06-11 13:13, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I'm about to ITP geomview, which will include a library package 
>> containing DLLs of the form cyg*-1-9-5.dll.  Should the package be 
>> called libgeomview1_9_5 or libgeomview_1_9_5?  I see both conventions 
>> in the distro.
> 
> libgeomview1.9.5
> 
> But, is this really a standalone library that can be used without 
> geomview, or is it just a support library intended for geomview and any 
> of its plugins?  If the latter, then there should just be geomview and 
> geomview-devel packages.

I think it's just a support library.  I just sent the ITP a little while 
ago, but I'll repackage with geomview and geomview-devel and send it again.

Ken