Re: Shared library versioning
Thanks for that one,
the thing is that the upstream author is using libtool which has a
somehow "special" versioning method. Apparently when the library's
interface changes in a way backwards-compatibility is broken, the major
(what they call current) version must be incremented.
I will have to discuss this with him because it means that some changes
have to made. But isn't this versioning issue a headache ? I mean, if
your sources compile a library and some binaries linked against it, you
have to maintain 2 version informations : the sources' version and the
library's one. Up until now the upstream author simply used a VERSION
file that was incremented "automagically" before CVS commit. Now he must
to keep a second version info for the library that he must supervise
manually in case of backwards-incompatibility...
Anyway, I will have to see with him in order to find a solution because
I think that having a (in libtool's vocabulary) current version of 513
isn't really acceptable...
Alexis Papadopoulos
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