[gst-devel] versioning

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

> * Ronald Bultje <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net> [20020920 10:59]:
> > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 13:57, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > > we still release gstreamer with libgstreamer-(version).so.0.0.0 as the lib 
> > > name.
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't we start by dropping that version number and doing proper 
> > > library versioning about now ?
> > > 
> > > it's pretty important for packages and so on, since right now it forces a 
> > > recompile of apps like gst-player, rhythmbox, gst-editor, ... when a new 
> > > gstreamer version is out.
> > 
> > didn't we agree that we'd start doing this from 0.5.0 on? As long as we
> > don't have a stable API, versioning is pretty useless...

Why is it useless ? I mean, that's the point of doing lib versioning.

> I've tried to argue that we should have been bumping the interface
> -every- release so far.  And no one seemed to mind for the couple early
> releases that I implemented it. ;)
> 
> I'm +1 for libtool-style interface/age versioning as soon as possible.

I tend to (hold your breath for it) agree with taaz here ;)

In the past people have argued they didn't want libtool version explosion.  
I agree with that, but given our current release frequency and the 
fact we haven't *changed* much to our ABI (we did *add* stuff), we'll 
hardly run into libtool version explosion any time soon.

Thomas

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