Re: [openobex-users] openobex messes up soname

[Marcel H. <ma...@ho...>]

Hi Christian,

> >The libtool stuff is nice, but actually there is no big advantage of it.
> >
> Anyway, is there any reason not to follow libtool guidelines?

we can follow them, but I think we actually never did. The releases of
OpenOBEX packages are so rare that never really noticed and we didn't
break that much.

> >My only big rule is to increment the soname if
> >you really break the API. If it is fully backward compatible I don't see
> >the need to do anything. And extensions are fully backware compatible.
> 
> Actually it's about forward compatibility. Say you build/package an app 
> on a system having a lib with rev=1. Then you distribute it to some 
> system where it's the same lib, just rev is 0. Thats perfectly fine from 
> libtools point of view. And no package system or linker will complain. 
> The app won't run because it's been build for the wrong interface, see?

No I don't see that, because I am quite sure that I have done this
before. Does the dynamic loader really care.

> While not an issue while building or developing it is a big issue for 
> packaging and deployment.

Sometimes it is a good idea to recompile the dependencies. And forcing
them to do is not a bad thing.

Regards

Marcel