library versioning

[Oliver Lehmann]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> i have an idea... not sure if it's worth the work, but i thought i'd put
> 
> it out there.  in light of all the problems with people upgrading, and 
> trying to use parallel stable and CVS, do we perhaps want to start 
> versioning the filenames of our libs a bit better?
> 
> ideally, we'd be doing something like "libxfcegui-4.3.so",

Let's take libxfce4util.so.1. You would rename it to libxfceutil-4.3.so
right? And when 4.4 comes out, you have to recompile everything, because
the old 4.3 lib is gone, and the new one is named libxfceutil-4.4.so? Even
if the libraries API didn't changed? That would be really bad!

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