[Devel] freetype-config --version

[Vincent Caron]

Hello,

Quoting doc/VERSION.DLL : "the libtool (and Unix) specific version 
number, like "9.2.3". This is what "freetype-config --version" will return".

I have some remarks on this :

* The --version option of *-config scripts and the emerging pkg-config 
unfication always show their release version, not their libtool version.

* Autoconf macros must do nasty tricks to fetch the release version from 
the headers, there is a solution in VERSION.DLL, I posted another one here :

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=183687

* Autoconf users always get confused regarding version checking, they 
always mean to check a minimal release version, even if the ABI-tied 
libtool version should make more sense to them.

I don't know if the issue was already raised, but I would suggest to 
change the 'freetype-config --version' output to be the release version. 
We could easily catch 'legacy use' in autoconf macros, when a major>=8 
is requested. Besides breaking all freetype-based builds around the 
world, does it look like a sensible idea ? :)