[Kde-bindings] Smoke library version numbers

[Arno Rehn]

On Saturday 21 November 2009 23:30:00 Richard Dale wrote:
> We've just been having a discussion on #kdebindings about the smoke lib
> version numbers. Pusling thinks that if we've made binary incompatible
> changes we should raise the major version from 2 to 3. I see the versions I
> have installed have gone up from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0, but that should mean that
> only functionality has been added, and not that the files are BIC. So
> really I think they shoujld be 3.0.0.
Hm. If we had explicitly set SOVERSION to "2.0" instead of just "2" in the 
first place, I think any binding that linked agains the old smoke wouldn't 
load and tell us that it can't find the 2.0 version. But since it was only 
"2", it won't detect any binary incompatibility, because the major version 
number is still "2". I don't know much about this stuff, but this has been my 
experience with other libs.
I'm not too happy with increasing to "3.0" - that just seems a little too 
much. But if it's the only way to get it right, then it's ok I guess.

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Arno Rehn
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