Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Oct 17, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
newer versions of debian (and therefore ubuntu) have replaced libquicktime0 (0.9.x) by libquicktime1 (1.0.x) most likely these are binary compatible
0.9.7 and 0.9.8 are definitely not binary-compatible with each other, although package systems allow upgrade from one to the other.
more generally, this is about versions < 0.9.8 vs >= 0.9.8.
my reply was rather generic. i haven't tried whether it actually works or not, nor did i care.
and true, i should have written "maybe these are binary compatible" instead of "most likely [...]"
i tried to avoid answers like "dude, compile it yourself" or "the only thing hans needs for getting gutsy packages is a gutsy machine. donations are welcome"
Yeah, libquicktime went thru a spasm of API-breaking (and probably ABI-breaking) changes on the path from 0.9 to 1.0. Most of the 0.9.x versions are not compatible with each other.
i never noticed this! i don't think i have changed a line of code in the quicktime4linux code of Gem for ages. to be precise, i haven't changed a line since August 2006, when there was 0.9.7 in debian. but then, i might have just been lucky and used the "right" functions...
fmga.sdr IOhannes