| From: | Aaron Optimizer Digulla |
| Date: | 23 Aug 2000 at 15:44:12 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Amiga tool inclusion... |
Quoting Martin Baute <solar@baud.de>:
> Problem: What about ported software that doesn�t really adhere to this,
> and have some number at the end of their name that doesn�t really
> stand for a version? (X11, as a stupid exsample. Can�t come up with a
> more sensible one right now.)
Well, before X11, there was X10; the "11" *is* a version number
(it's X Version 11 Release 6 :-). Anyway, I guess that will not happen
often and I see no problem to change the name of the *installation*
file for this purpose. So even if the official name is "Gtk+", we
could have Gtk+1.zip and Gtk+2.zip.
If Amiga doesn't fall into the DLL trap and allows every application
to install *all* its files into a single directory (even DLLs) instead
of spreading it all over the place, then it would also not matter
if the names inside would be the same (along the lines what you can
do on Unix with search paths without the clumsyness of editing ENV
variables :-)
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