Raising libwbclient version to 1.0?

simo idra at samba.org
Thu Nov 20 17:30:08 GMT 2008


On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 18:27 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
> 
> >> should we raise the libwbclient version to 1.0 due
> >> to the major changes?
> > 
> > Technically we have only added calls and not changed existing
> > function signatures so I don't think a major SONAME change
> > is necessary.  But maybe I missed something.
> 
> The problem is that applications which use new function
> would not work with an old library.

If you bump up tho, old application that could work flawlessly will
simply fail to find the library.

Simo.

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