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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: library version numbers
From:       Harri Porten <harri () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-04-19 16:47:46
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 19 April 2001 15:30, aleXXX wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > can we please increment the version numbers of the libs in kdelibs from 3.0.0
> > to 3.2.0 or something like this for KDE 2.2 ?
> > IMO this is exactly the purpose what these version numbers are for, otherwise
> > how do you want do recognize whether libkdeui.so.3.0.0 belongs to KDE 2.0,
> > KDE 2.1 or KDE 2.2 ?
> 
> Once again: this is more dangerous than helpful.
> An app linked to the kdelibs from KDE 2.0 will _NOT_ run properly
> under a KDE 2.1 environment.

We do we keep binary compatibility then ? I still haven't understood why
discussion was made. Please enlighten me.

> For instance it won't find klauncher since
> its named has changed.

That one we could have fixed. So what other arguments where there ?

Harri.
 
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