Magick++ ABI bump

It is looking like we will need to bump the Magick++ ABI for the next 
GraphicsMagick release due to new features added to the Geometry class 
and my lack of foresight 15 years ago to make this possible without 
changing the class footprint.  This means that dependent applications 
would need to be re-built in order to use the new library.  Existing 
applications would continue running just fine with the previous 
version of the Magick++ library (which can use the updated 
GraphicsMagick core C library), provided that the operating system 
supports shared library versioning.

The GraphicsMagick ABI has been upward compatible since November, 2008 
so this would be a change from the norm.

I would appreciate some feedback as to whether the Magick++ userbase 
will be negatively impacted by this in some significant way.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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