libXfont version inconsistency ?
Enrico Weigelt
weigelt at metux.de
Wed Jul 26 03:10:52 PDT 2006
* Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm at pld-linux.org> schrieb:
Hi,
> These versions are for different things (software version vs
> shared library version) so no need for these to be equal.
Right, but it confuses people and I don't see any need for
having different versionings.
> Think what will happen when someone does some code rework without
> breaking ABI and will give version 2.0 to libXfont ...
He simply shouldn't. What should legitimate such an huge version
jump if the ABI is untouched ? On an major jump, people expect
something totally new, which is incompatible with the previous
version (maybe even on source level).
cu
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