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		rbanffy on July 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: At the Mountains of Madness > deduplication of identical libraries through cryptographic hashes Or, maybe, adding a version string to the file name, so, if you were compiled with data structures for libFoo1 (which you found on libFoo.h provided by libFoo1-devel) you’ll link to libFoo1 and not libFoo or libFoo2.

foobiekr on July 11, 2024 [–]

Never use a string. What if the string is wrong? Use hashes.

rbanffy on July 11, 2024 | [–]

If the file for version 2 or libFoo is libFoo1, it only means someone shouldn’t be naming things.

Being in the file name makes it trivial to retrieve and immediately obvious to a human reading the information.

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