Re: ANN: GNUstep Gui Version 0.9.4

[Adam Fedor]

On Oct 1, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> I think it's a mistake to couple the soname with the release
> number. what's the problem using the general triple soname schema
> supported by libtool?

I should probably write up a policy about this somewhere, but... 
libtool says you shouldn't try to relate the soname and the release 
version because they have nothing to do with each other. I'd consider 
that strange reasoning, but anyway - my policy from now on is that they 
will be related. Changes in the major or minor release version indicate 
some kind of interface change in the library. libtool's versioning 
system is interesting, and we might consider it for the future, but 
first some facts:

1. The current GNUstep-make policy for all libraries is that the SONAME 
consists of the library name and the major version number.
2. That's not very fine-grained for me, so I've changed that policy for 
base/gui so that it also has the minor version number in it.

changing this policy would involve changing how GNUstep-make handles 
the version numbers. That would probably affect all libraries, not just 
the GNUstep core libraries.