On Saturday 06 August 2011, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 10:00:21PM +1000, Matt Giuca wrote: > > - Release FluidSynth 2.0, with soname libfluidsynth.so.2, or > > It is generally unwise to attempt to keep SONAME versions and project > versions in sync. This leads to confusion and inappropriate > compatibility problems. Best practice is to keep them entirely > separate. > > The exception is projects which make no attempt to provide any kind of > stable ABI, for whatever reason (usually: code changing too fast, > developers can't be bothered). Those have exactly one SONAME per > version of the code, and client applications must be rebuilt with > every code change to the library.
IMO the libtool numbering scheme is an unnecessary mystification, to say the least. KDE4 provides a pretty stable ABI, and does not need to use libtool. Qt has always managed to provide strongly stable ABIs within major releases, without using libtool either. Qt4 libraries, as a nice example, keep in sync the SONAME with the shared object name and the project version. Regards, Pedro _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
