library versioning

[Jeff Franks]

Oliver Lehmann wrote:

>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>hi all,
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>>i have an idea... not sure if it's worth the work, but i thought i'd put
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>>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?
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>>ideally, we'd be doing something like "libxfcegui-4.3.so",
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>Let's take libxfce4util.so.1. You would rename it to libxfceutil-4.3.so
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Isn't libxfceutil-4.3.so an unstable development library, and 
libxfceutil-4.4.so the stable release version?

>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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Jeff