Hi, Florian Forster writes: > What Andreas is discussing is, as far as I see, the versioning schema > used by the GNU linker. Markus is talking about the libtool versioning > system. Unfortunately, that's not the same thing.
Well analyzed. I should have pointed out upfront that libdbi uses libtool, which is why I implied we were talking about those numbers. > I've been given to understand that the major version under GNU/Linux is > calculated as > major = current - age > while other systems (iIrc FreeBSD) would use > major = 1 + current - age. > > So, if you only add new functions, `current' and `age' are increased > which will leave `major' at the same value. > That sounds good. > The `minor' number is, I think, basically equal to the `age' and the > `patch' number is equal to the `revision'. For example, the libtool > version 8:3:8 would result in the ABI version 0.8.3. That is: major = current - age minor = age patch = revision If that serves everyone's needs, I'll be happy to use this. > Currently, 1:0:1 is > configured (== 0.1.0). To denote a backwards incompatible change, you'd > use 2:0:0 which would be translated to 2.0.0. This is where the hairy issues start. *All* libdbi releases up to 0.8.3 have used the libtool interface version 0:5:0. It is just because all releases were backwards-compatible that we were not flooded with complaints about linker errors. The next release is going to add a couple of functions (especially the instance interface), so we'd wind up having 1:0:1. However, 0.1.0 is not an obvious successor for 0.8.3. So, should we use: major = current - age minor = age + 8 patch = revision until major is actually increased? regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka markus.hoeni...@cats.de (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ libdbi-devel mailing list libdbi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libdbi-devel
