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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon gbdev

Allow installing multiple versions of rgbds

Open Rangi42 opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

make install could name its executables as rgbasm0.6.0, rgblink0.6.0, etc, and symlink rgbasm, rgblink, etc to the latest version. This would let older projects continue to use old rgbds without having to keep a local copy somewhere.

Rangi42 avatar Oct 03 '22 17:10 Rangi42

Sounds more like a job for the distro packager.

This would not let old projects work without specifying e.g. make RGBASM=... RGBLINK=... explicitly, at which point you don't even need make install anyway.

ISSOtm avatar Oct 03 '22 17:10 ISSOtm

I think it's a bit more conventional to do rgbasm-0.6.0, etc.

aaaaaa123456789 avatar Oct 03 '22 17:10 aaaaaa123456789

I agree this should be left up to the distro pacakger, but it'd be nice to have an upstream convention. Many autotools projects allow passing a --program-suffix=-$VERSION flag, to help with this. Personally I'm torn between both installing the bins in a separate directory and using different names, might do both.

EDIT: I guess cmake allows a -DCMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX=-$VERSION but I haven't tested this yet.

mid-kid avatar Oct 03 '22 18:10 mid-kid