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Re: 1.6.0: major soname version decremented?
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
Subject: |
Re: 1.6.0: major soname version decremented? |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:32:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) |
Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
>> Forgive my ignorance, but shouldn't these version numbers increase
>> only, with newer releases?
>
> Sure, but the 1.5.X releases were just beta releases and shouldn't
> have been used publically,
Yes, I know. But 1.5.x has been stable for almost a year; that's what
we've been using for LilyPond, and that's where (Cygwin compatibility)
development was merged.
> The reason for the decrement is that Thien-Thi asked that I add some
> (libtool) "AGE" to the libraries and that seemed reasonable so I did.
> This decremented the major number.
Aahh, the wonders of libtool. You're not telling me that libtool is
in control, rather than the developers? ;-)
Greetings,
Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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