Re: [ladcca] goings on

[Bob Ham]

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 15:46, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> Bob Ham <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Also, I've done some autogen scripting to make the library soname
> > and include directory be versionised automatically.  It'll now be
> > lash-0.5 for the imminent release, lash-0.6 for the release after,
> > and so on up to 1.0.  That will enable libraries to be installed
> > side-by-side during development and not have binary compatibility
> > issues.  There may be many :-)
> 
> I would urge you to use libtool versioning instead.  Naming library
> versions after release versions is probably the most common mistake
> people make.

Aye, I've been using it until now, but this is using the same facility
that's needed for the includes, so it's more flexibility for little
effort.  There's no reason a soname change *has* to occur; it could be
that lash-0.5 is the soname until 1.0.

Bob