[Ffmpeg-devel] versions, ABIs and sonames

[Jacob Meuser]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:00:28AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> would there be some interrest in having nice standard a.b.c versions for each 
> lib (libavformat, libavcodec, libpostproc)? 
> so that an increase of
> c means no binary compatibility breakage 
> b means backward compatibility (added function, ...)
> a means no compatibility (function removial, ...)

yes, but (c) seems pointless.  if there is no compatability issue,
then why bother?

> and just to clarify, yes for cvs not the yearly releases, the later would be 
> pointless as they always break compatiblity entirely

why remove it for the release?  what harm is it?  some packaging
systems actually use (and expect) .so versioning.

> if theres some interrest then ill change the meaning of the current 
> LIBAV*_BUILD number from integer to aabbcc 3 element version vector or do we 
> need more then 100 of each?

I would say use .so versions and keep the build numbers as integers.
the build numbers would serve the purpose of (c) from above.

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