Re: version and release number

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Lorenzo Bettini wrote on Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:30:43PM CEST:
> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> The -release option specifies part of the base naming for your library  
>> so that it becomes part of the base library name.  For example,  
>> libfoo-1.0.so and libfoo-2.0.so.  To the operating system these  
>> libraries are completely different and might have well been named  
>> libfoo.so and libbar.so.  The libraries might otherwise be entirely the 
>> same and could be "binary compatible" but the operating system won't  
>> know it.  Very few packages use the -release option.
>
> OK, so they would be different because they'd have a different name;

Yep.

> but  
> if I used the same release number (e.g., only the major number for  
> example 1, instead of 1.1) they'd still be compatible, wouldn't they?

If their -version-info is also compatible, yes.

>  I  
> mean "not binary compatible" in the documentation refers only to  
> different names

This sentence seems to be confused.

> so would you suggest to use only version info and no release info, am I  
> right?

Yes, definitely.

Cheers,
Ralf