Re: libgailutil.so.16 -> libgailutil.so.17

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 26 Jul 2002, jacob berkman wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 14:15, Bill Haneman wrote:
> >
> > it's also true that
> > backwards-compatible changes will be happening in various libraries, and
> > in such cases we should bump the soname also, even though bincompat
> > (backwards, not forwards) is maintained.
> 
> either i am confused, or you are.
> 
> why would you change the soname for bin compat changes?
> 

It is very reasonable (or rather, it woud be pretty unreasonable not to)
do this if there werer new API additions. Its a pity that we have just one
level of versioning, so that an incompatible libgailutil will have to be
called libgailutil2.so

>  - jacob
> 

	Sander

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