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

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Sander Vesik wrote:

> On 26 Jul 2002, jacob berkman wrote:
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>  
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> > > 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.
> >
> >    
>
> Why would you link to the so.xy and not to the .so ? As there are no
> minor/micro versions in teh numbering, libgailutil will need to become
> libgailutil2 (or 3 or ...) when incompatable chanegs are introduced.
>  
Should we start looking at ELF symbol versioning?  It is designed to 
handle this sort of issue -- not bumping the soname (which breaks old 
apps), but allowing newer apps to exit immediately if the library 
doesn't contain the required version nodes.

James.

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