Re: Octave library version for release

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/23/2015 07:25 AM, Mike Miller wrote:
> Hey jwe, maintainers,
>
> Sorry for bringing this up so late in the release cycle,

That's OK, I think this is something that should be done just before the 
release.  At least you remembered!  I suppose "update library versions" 
should be on a elease checklist somewhere.

> but should
> Octave 4.0.0 still be liboctave.so.2 / liboctinterp.so.2 or should the
> version be bumped to 3? It seems that some things are not quite
> backwards compatible, so programs or oct-files built against 3.8.2's
> liboctave.so.2 may not work with 4.0.0's liboctave.so.2.

The rules for incrementing version numbers are described in the libtool 
manual:


https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#Updating-version-info

I'm sure we've removed, changed, and added public interfaces to 
liboctave, liboctinterp, and liboctgui since the last release, so we 
should increment the first version number for all of the libraries and 
set the other two to zero as in the attached diff.

jwe

lib-version-diff.txt
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