setting SOVERSION to 5

[Kevin Ottens]

On Tuesday 25 February 2014 19:15:05 šumski wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 of February 2014 18:45:15 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 February 2014 17:12:37 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:55:43PM +0100, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > > > OK, but then the said change is either in the packaging or in our own
> > > > cmake
> > > > files as we'd have to drop the SOVERSION later on when our version
> > > > becomes
> > > > 5.0.0. So it's really a question of which is more error prone.
> > > 
> > > No change would be needed in the KF5 sources, SOVERSION would be set to
> > > 5
> > > now and until KF6 comes along.
> > 
> > I'm not fond of keeping duplicated information like that... but indeed
> > that's an option as well. Now I wonder though: what was Hrvoje's objection
> > exactly?
> 
> After reading all replies, i guess it does makes sense to have soversion at
> 5 (already).
> (i.e. it 'shouldn't' have been downgraded to 4 for first alpha - but just
> the soversion ;-), even though the soversion is kinda contained in library
> names) My objection was based on that we'll have a 4.96.0 release with
> so.4, and then suddenly with 4.97.0 at 5...

Of course, that's the point with screwing up. We fail and learn. :-)

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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