Why shared libraries have version numbers

[David Collier-Brown]

   I was being humorous: you're English is perfectly fine! 

   I was suggesting the first thing you do is tell the programmer
using two versions of the same library to not do that!

--dave

Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:56:10AM -0400, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>   
>>> How do you cope with a program that requires version .2 that
>>> also links in a library that requires version .1?
>>>
>>> Volker
>>>   
>>>       
>>    You speak unkindly to the programmer (;-))
>>     
>
> Sorry, I was not aware of the rudeness of my language. I'm
> not a native speaker, sorry.
>
> Volker
>   


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