library versioning

[Jeff Franks]

Oliver Lehmann wrote:

>>Isn't libxfceutil-4.3.so an unstable development library, and 
>>libxfceutil-4.4.so the stable release version?
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Exactly. So why can't the libraries be versioned properly in the first 
palce. If nothing changes, then those version number wont change either, 
and applications will still be able to link to them.

>My point is: why changing the name even if nothing changed. Take 
>libxfce4util.so.1. In 4.0.6 it was libxfce4util.so.1 too.
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>When the ABI doesn't gets changed, it makes no sence to rename the
>library.
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As far as I understood, the question proposed by Brain was - "do we 
perhaps want to start versioning the filenames of our libs a bit better?".

Jeff.