[sword-devel] sword library versioning and naming convention question (for packaging)

[Jason Galyon]

Jonathan Morgan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Jason Galyon <jtgalyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>> I am updating the Ubuntu sword package from 1.5.9 to the current 1.5.11.
>>
>> However, I noticed that libsword used to be libsword.so.6 whereas now it
>> is libsword-1.5.11.so
>>
>> This does not 'play' nicely with the shlibs versioning and dependency
>> system for most linux systems that I am aware of.  I have chatted
>> (shortly so far) with some Ubuntu packagers to help me and they had no
>> ideas.  I checked around in my lib directories and even with ones with
>> numbers before the .so, had version numbers on the end.
>>
>> Would it be possible next release to have something like
>> libsword-1.5.so.11 or similar?
>>     
>
> That versioning scheme assumes that the 1.5 releases are backward
> compatible and binary replaceable, if I remember correctly.  However,
> the line of 1.5.x releases are major releases, not minor releases, and
> can include API breaking changes from time to time, so (for example),
> you almost certainly couldn't use an application built against
> libsword-1.5.8 with libsword-1.5.11 without rebuilding and probably
> changing it.
>
> Jon
>
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I intended to send an email earlier than this but as it is not appearing 
in my sent box I must have failed to do so.

Would it be possible given the current information to follow the 
convention of having libraries built with the versioning like so?
libsword-1.5.11.so.1

Jason