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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Library numbering
From:       Alex Zepeda <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date:       1999-05-04 23:27:54
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Leon Widdershoven wrote:

> I think this is kind of confusing, especially since a specific
> KDE version relies on specific kdelibs installed.
> So I would like to propose a new numbering scheme for kdelibs
> libraries, namely 
> <libname>.<kdeversion>.<patchlevel>
> which would result in (for KDE 1.1.1)
> libkdecore.so.1.1.x
> 
> At the present, my kdelibs libs are at version 2.0, but I'm running
> KDE 1.1 (at least, I think). I think this is a little bit confusing.

Sounds nice, but we've already got something with the major number two
out.  Plus three decimal "places" aren't supported everywhere, let alone
two.

- alex

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