On Saturday 24 April 2010 13:26:20 Craig Southeren wrote: > As one of the maintainers of the upstream (opal & ptlib), please feel > free to email me if I can help Craig, Thanks for the offer. I do have one question/ request of upstream. Does the soname for ptlib/ opal need to change with every release? Generally this isn't considered best practise: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html#AEN135 http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#sonameapiabi http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html Are subsequent minor versions of the libs really not binary (ABI) compatible? The problem for distributions is that every time the soname changes all depends of that library then need to be rebuilt and everyone needs to download all of the rebuilt binary packages. In contrast if the soname is only bumped when binary compatibility is broken then we only need to rebuild as necessary. In this particular case I wouldn't need to coordinate the transition from ptlib 2.6.5 -> 2.6.6 as I suspect they are binary compatible. Mark
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