[PATCH] Add version info to the shared libs

Jan Engelhardt jengelh at inai.de
Tue Nov 20 03:00:08 PST 2012


On Friday 2012-11-09 18:54, Mikko Levonmaa wrote:

>Right, so if the first api version is 0 then it make sense, sort of, 
>matter of preference I guess. So, the original patch was wrong, however 
>the new suggestion was actually geared towards the future  and the next 
>release(s), so if I'm not mistaken that needs to be done through the 
>-version-info and for the time being the api version would be defined 
>to 0.

The next API begins when symbols are added or ABIs modified; so if 
wayland 1.1 and 1.2 and 2.0 (serving as examples) all add symbols, 2.0 
would have API 3.
So, emphasizing again, package number often does not relate to the API 
number.


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