[vlc-devel] [RFC] Versioned installation directories

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> 	Hello,
> 
> Currently, all VLC versions indiscrimitally install their data to 
> $(prefix)/lib/vlc and $(prefix)/share/vlc. As a result, installation multiple 
> versions in parallel is impossible, since the last installation will override 
> files from the previous one. Or more commonly, the package manager won't let 
> it happen.
> 
> There are sometimes requests for such a feature. Basically, we'd need to 
> version the library and data directories, instead of using the automake's 
> built-in pkglibdir and pkgdatadir. We'd also need to version the gettext 
> domain. AFAICT, the only conflicting files at that point become the VLC 
> binary and alias scripts. These can be renamed on the fly with 
> configure's --program-transform-name et al - so it's a non-issue.
> 
> I don't have any strong opinion either way, so I wonder what other Linux-based 
> devs think.
> 

I don't have objections to include version information in directory 
names, eg: for $(prefix)/share/vlc. Other project do that too and it 
allows multiple versions of VLC to be installed together.

Gtz
Jean-Paul Saman