16 Oct
2007
16 Oct
'07
1:53 p.m.
On Oct 16, 2007, at 4:21 , Ketil Malde wrote:
The major/minor scheme has worked nicely for .so for ages.
i'm not so sure about that. it may be better than alternatives, but [..]
Also, it sees a lot of testing, at least in current Linux distributions. The point is that the end-user experience is pretty good.
Except it doesn't, quite; note how many packages have started embedding the version in the soname (e.g. foo-1.2.so.*). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH