Re: Requirements for specifying dependencies on libraries

[Marc Espie <espie%nerim.net@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 07:43:28AM +0100, Jens Rehsack wrote:
>    "abstract" : "Provide the stuff missing in List::Util?,
>    "prereqs" : {
>       "runtime" : {
>          "recommends" : {
>             "perl" : "5.018001"
>          },
>          "requires" : {
>             "Sub::Exporter" : "0",
>             "XSLoader" : "0",
>             "perl" : "5.008001"
>          },
>          "linking" : {
>             "libgcrypto.la" : "20"
>          }
>       }
>    }
> }

A lot of distributions actively remove *.la...

Version numbers are generally better found in pkgconfig files, at a somewhat
higher level. They tend to be better kept around, or even "faked" for
some projects who don't have them...