On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 09:44:33AM -0800, Ben Warren wrote:
> > I know there was some work done in this direction, but nothing for ABI
> > versioning or API compatibility has been done yet.
> > 
> As you can see, the library naming isn’t very useful.  As for ABI
> versioning, I don’t think anything meaningful has been done.  IMHO we
> should probably change this so the major release is part of the name,
> since that’s where I believe we should guarantee compatibility, along
> the l lines of ‘libopenvswitch_2.5.so’ or whatever.  I think there are
> libtool directives for managing this naming, but we haven’t done that.

That's a good idea, I hadn't thought of that approach.
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