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

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 15:14, Bill Haneman wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 18:09, 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?
> 
> I think you'd want to do this if you added API, would you not?

i wouldn't.  that would mean apps/libs having to be re-linked against
the new lib, which breaks bin compat for all libs above me.

 - jacob