Re: Naming library with proper SONAME

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:44:20AM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> 
> Ideally upstream (Daniel) should change his mind and use an unsigned
> int as the soname, instead of the version.
> 
> For a library I package ( http://packages.debian.org/witty) I worked
> with upstream. After exchanging a few e-mails and clarifications, they
> understood soversioning very well and adopted a proper sonaming
> scheme.
> 
I agree.  However, in an earlier message Daniel said:

  "Yes, that's the expected result, isn't it? The reasoning was that
   it's too difficult to have ABI-compatibility, so we just use the
   complete version number as the SONAME. "bjam install" will create
   the unversioned symlink."

I have made an attempt at explaining soversioning.  However, it appears
that I have made it appear too complex.  Perhaps your blog posting will
convinve Daniel to adopt a more reasonable approach.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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