On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Assuming gettext is an example of proper library version numbering, what's 
> the relationship between version "0.19.4" and version "8" and version 
> "10.3.0"? What do each of those numbers represent? What would be the 
> appropriate circumstances when a developer would change each of those numbers?

I imagine they use libtool for generating the library so I assume the
numbers represent the library api version:

<https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#Updating-version-info>

I find it very confusing but I use the above whenever I release my
libraries in order to determine how I should update the library
version.

Cheers

Adam
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