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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can you explain why you think installing them as .so to /usr/lib changes
in any way our responsibility for library versioning vs installing them
as .kiface to /usr/bin? They still get installed with the whole package,
reinstalled on upgrade, uninstalled on package removal, etc...

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 09:21:26AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I'm not opposed to this but once we head down this path, we will forever
> be responsible for library versioning and any implications it has with
> regard to multiple installed versions of kicad.  I'm not sure we are
> ready to open that can of worms just yet.  Keep in mind that .kifaces
> are not generic libraries, they can only be linked to a specific kicad
> app.  Link to the wrong .kiface and your sure to have issues.
> 
> On 2/12/2017 2:01 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > Please!!:
> > 
> > - Move .kiface into $PREFIX/lib on linux, and the equivalent place on
> >   other systems
> > 
> > - Rename them from _foo.kiface to foo.so on linux and osx and foo.dll on
> >   windows
> > 
> > - Stop installing them with the executable bit set on linux! Presumably
> >   osx too. It's totally unnecessary for shared libs, and ESPECIALLY bad
> >   if they're in $PREFIX/bin.
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 07:49:36AM +1300, Simon Wells wrote:
> >> As the kifaces are just shared objects/libraries is there any reason
> >> they must be named .kiface instead of .so (or other name used on
> >> system for dynamic libs), It seems to just be making things more
> >> difficult and confusing when people see .kiface and have no ideaa what
> >> it means.
> >>
> >> These should really not be place in bin/ on linux systems either as
> >> its really not designed for that sort of thing
> >>
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