[Firebird-devel] library soname for fbclient and fbembed

[Damyan I. <da...@mo...>]

Hi,

The posix builds currently use the following sonames:
	file			soname
	libfbclient.so.2.1.0	libfbclient.so.2
	libfbembed.so.2.1.0	libfbembed.so.2

These are exactly the same as in firebird 2.0.

Are these libraries 100% backwards-compatible with libfb*.so.2.0.1? In
other words, is it guaranteed, that a program linked with 2.0.1 library
will continue to work as before if that library is replaced with 2.1.0
one?

As an extreme example, imagine fb_inet_server from 2.0 and libfbclient
from 2.1.

If the answer is no, then in my understanding the soname should be
changed.
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