Subject: Re: so name bump; impact on major, minor and patch version

Re: so name bump; impact on major, minor and patch version

From: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag_at_dottedmag.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:48:37 +0600

Twas brillig at 22:55:16 14.03.2010 UTC+01 when peut_at_peut.org did gyre and gimble:

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Sounds really like sonames (semantically, not implementation-wide).

patchlevel increase: no ABI changes, no problem to upgrade library
in-place.

minor version increase: conservative ABI extension, not a problem for
VMS if new entries are added to the end of list (which is sane thing to
do, I presume). New version will serve all applications linked with with
library with the same major version just fine.

major version increase: ABI breakage. Another version of library should
be installed alongside the older one.

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Received on 2010-03-14