preparing new RtMidi release, question about SO version

[Felipe Sateler]

On 17 February 2016 at 12:02, Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks very much Felipe, that clarifies things immensely.

:)

>
> A last question, is there a difference between using this -release
> style versioning and simply bumping the SO name on every release?

The only appreciable difference I see is aesthetics, and ease of use
if you already use libtool. A SONAME libfoo-x.y.z.so allows moving to
SONAME libfoo.so.0 once the ABI is deemed stable. The alternative
would be to have SONAME libfoo.so.LargeNumber as the first stable ABI
release. And libtool has a flag/option/command/something so that the
autotools project version is automatically used as the soname version,
instead of manually bumping the version on each release.

>
> In any case, I'll keep these recommendations in mind for all my
> projects (which for some reason always seem to be libraries.. god...
> :P), thanks.

Thanks for caring about Rt*.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler