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Tree-sitter started versioning their shared library filenames

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Message #34 received at 78754 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>
Cc: casouri <at> gmail.com, 78754 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, shipmints <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#78754: Tree-sitter started versioning their shared library
 filenames
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:21:07 +0300

> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:05:12 +0100 (BST)
> From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>
> cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>         Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com>,
>         78754 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2025, Yuan Fu wrote:
> 
> >> On Jun 11, 2025, at 5:41 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Indeed, I think the loop should be in the opposite direction, from
> >> the highest supported ABI version to the lowest.
> >
> > We’re adding candidates using Fcons, so candidates added later are in the front of the list, no?
> 
> So we currently prefer the bare libtree-sitter-foo.so to any versioned files?  Shouldn’t that one be the last resort?

Why should it?  isn't it standard practice on Posix systems to make
foo.so a symlink to a versioned foo-N.M.so?

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