On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Brian Barrett wrote:
> Nooooo! :)
>
> It would be good for everyone to read the Libtool documentation to
> see why versioning on the release number would be a really bad idea.
> Then comment. But my opinion would be that you should change based
> on interface changes, not based on release numbers.
Yes, I second Brian. Notwithstanding what the popular vote is on MPI
ABI compatibility across MPI implementations, I think that
major/minor numbering within an implementation should be used to
indiciate when interfaces break, not give hints as to what release
they pertain to.
. . christian
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