Installs should include lib files

What libraries should be included for the different platforms, what changes should be done to config files (sc.ini etc) for them to be used correctly? And what should the names be?

On Windows it is (I suppose) tango.lib (and usergdi32.lib), but on *nix the situation isn't necessarily as easy, as versioned libraries actually are viable.

I'd thus prefer libraries with full version names (two components) - and possibly a convention where snapshots are numbered in between, that is if latest release was 1.4, then snapshots are 1.5 until 1.6 becomes next stable. Not very important prior to 1.0 maybe. libtango.lib/so should always be symlinked to the latest installed version.

Ah, yes, I've assumed above that *nix binaries will ship with both shared and static libraries.

dsss build ; dsss install

Tada, you're done.

If you ship shared libraries (I'd highly recommend against doing this), you should be careful to set the soversion properly. The easiest way to do this is to just use DSSS ;)

A note on versioning:

Don't version your static libraries unless you create 100% incompatible versions. Like GTK+ -> GTK+2. At that point, you can simply add a version number to the static name.

Version your shared libraries very carefully: The first number in the (usually) three-number series should change whenever a non-backwards-compatible change is made. The .so version is generally NOT the same as the "human" version of the library.

I don't mind not versioning the libraries if we don't need it :)

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