Allow installing multiple versions of rgbds

gbdev / rgbds

Rednex Game Boy Development System - An assembly toolchain for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color

https://rgbds.gbdev.io

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Allow installing multiple versions of rgbds #1090

Closed Rangi42 closed 4 months ago

Rangi42 commented 2 years ago

make install could name its executables as rgbasm0.6.0, rgblink0.6.0, etc, and symlink rgbasm, rgblink, etc to the latest version. This would let older projects continue to use old rgbds without having to keep a local copy somewhere.

ISSOtm commented 2 years ago

Sounds more like a job for the distro packager.

This would not let old projects work without specifying e.g. make RGBASM=... RGBLINK=... explicitly, at which point you don't even need make install anyway.

aaaaaa123456789 commented 2 years ago

I think it's a bit more conventional to do rgbasm-0.6.0, etc.

mid-kid commented 2 years ago

I agree this should be left up to the distro pacakger, but it'd be nice to have an upstream convention. Many autotools projects allow passing a --program-suffix=-$VERSION flag, to help with this. Personally I'm torn between both installing the bins in a separate directory and using different names, might do both.

EDIT: I guess cmake allows a -DCMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX=-$VERSION but I haven't tested this yet.