Raising libwbclient version to 1.0?

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Thu Nov 20 17:41:41 GMT 2008


simo schrieb:
> 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.

But you can install a compat library, as we discussed when 3.2.0 was
released.

Or we just say it's the job of the package maintainers to add the
correct dependecies, so that all installed packages work together...
and just ship it as version 0.2

metze


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