On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Felipe Sateler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 February 2016 at 12:02, Stephen Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks very much Felipe, that clarifies things immensely. > > :) > >> >> A last question, is there a difference between using this -release >> style versioning and simply bumping the SO name on every release? > > The only appreciable difference I see is aesthetics, and ease of use > if you already use libtool. A SONAME libfoo-x.y.z.so allows moving to > SONAME libfoo.so.0 once the ABI is deemed stable. The alternative > would be to have SONAME libfoo.so.LargeNumber as the first stable ABI > release. And libtool has a flag/option/command/something so that the > autotools project version is automatically used as the soname version, > instead of manually bumping the version on each release.
Aaaaahh.. did not know this! I thought I'd done my research, but these little bits of technical knowledge always seem to catch me. https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Release-numbers.html Thanks! Steve _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
