Can we please rename libphobos.a to libphobos-0.148.a and so on????

Is it really that much of a pain to include the version constant in the library name????

As I see it, the only place where a change is needed, is the linker command line. (Anybody correct me if i'm wrong. And even if I am, is it still that difficult?)

In article <4401E7BB.3030103@nospam.org>, Georg Wrede says...
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>Can we please rename libphobos.a to libphobos-0.148.a and so on????
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>Is it really that much of a pain to include the version constant in the library name????
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>As I see it, the only place where a change is needed, is the linker command line. (Anybody correct me if i'm wrong. And even if I am, is it still that difficult?)

This might get sticky if you use gcc to link your code (like in a makefile). I'm not to clear on how gcc finds libs but having the libs change names could be a bad thing.

OTOH if an install script is used hard/soft links could be used to alias libphobos_0.xxx.a as libphobos.a, then you only need to deal with that problem when using old versions.