Re: Question about shared libraries

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net>]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Eric Dorland wrote:

> Actually it's not version 2.0 of Imlib... its a completely new library
> called Imlib 2... so the versioning is correct...

However, consider:

- Imlib2 is intended to supersede Imlib
- Imlib2 and Imlib were written by the same author
- There will never be a successor to libImlib.so.1 which uses libImlib.so.2
as its soname

So what difference does it make if the library is called libImlib2.so.1 versus
libImlib.so.2?  None really, except that one unnecessarily includes a number
in the library /name/, and the other increments the library /version/.  Which
makes one much less cumbersome than the other.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer