Re: version and release number

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> so would you suggest to use only version info and no release info, am I 
> right?  I was only concerned about the fact that the release number of the 
> library is not visible anywhere and that it would force the use to specify a 
> name together with the number...

There are a few reasons for using release info.  Some projects don't 
care about binary compatibility or updates to libraries so they could 
use release info to differentiate between releases.  Other projects 
maintain parallel branches of the software (e.g. older and newer) and 
want an easy way to allow the multiple branches to be distributed 
without fear that they will collide with other branch's version info 
and end up producing shared libraries with the same names.

Bob
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