[yocto] question about installing multiple versions of a single library

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

I am putting this out on the list as I have no idea.  Maybe someone else can explain this one. 

Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday at crashcourse.ca]
>Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 2:05 AM
>To: Rifenbark, Scott M
>Subject: question about installing multiple versions of a single library
>
>
>  sorry for the interruption, i'm reading dev manual here:
>
>http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-
>manual.html#installing-multiple-versions-of-the-same-library
>
>and the example used (clutter) doesn't even exist in oe-core with those version
>numbers, i was looking for another example that actually exists, didn't
>immediately see one.
>
>  more to the point, the version numbers used in those clutter recipe files look
>weird:
>
>     clutter-1.6_1.6.20.bb
>     clutter-1.8_1.8.4.bb
>
>i'm not used to seeing recipe files that appear to combine a higher version
>number *and* what looks like a minor version number upgrade as well. do you
>know what's going on there? maybe that's not the best example for trying to
>explain this topic.
>
>rday