preparing new RtMidi release, question about SO version

[Stephen Sinclair]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

Aaaaahh.. did not know this!

I thought I'd done my research, but these little bits of technical
knowledge always seem to catch me.

https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Release-numbers.html

Thanks!

Steve