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Re: version and release number
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Bob Friesenhahn |
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Re: version and release number |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:01:14 -0500 (CDT) |
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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