Re: 1.6.0: major soname version decremented?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

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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