[Development] Co-installation & library naming rules

[Stephen Kelly]

On Friday, September 21, 2012 16:47:11 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> In particular, note that it's also possible to load two different major 
> versions of a given library into memory, as the dynamic linker only cares 
> about the full soname. More often than not, that's a bad idea.
> 
> Note: does not apply to Qt Quick 2, since the version number is already
> part  of the base library name.

I don't think QtQuick2 is a good example. The library is called libQtQuick.so, 
and the '2' refers to the QML-based-API version, not the SONAME and not the Qt 
major version.

Thanks,

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