On 17 February 2016 at 12:51, Stephen Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
BTW, you might want to apply this as well to rtaudio: https://github.com/thestk/rtaudio/issues/17 -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
