Re: libgailutil.so.16 -> libgailutil.so.17

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On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:15:19PM +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
[...]
> ..., it's also true that
> backwards-compatible changes will be happening in various libraries, and
> in such cases we should bump the soname also, even though bincompat
> (backwards, not forwards) is maintained.
> 
Hmm, i don't have experience with this kind of stuff at all, but I'd like to
know why Gnome doesn't use the versioning support of (at least the linux and
solaris) elf implementation as glibc for example. From my perspective this look
better than bumping sonames for backwards bincompat changes.

I think the arguments from sun at
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/als2000/full_papers/browndavid/browndavid_html/index.html
seems reasonable, but then again i might be completly wrong. To please don't
feel offendend, I'm mostly curious.

Martin H.