Re: [openobex-users] Planning for openobex-1.6 release

[Hendrik S. <po...@he...>]

Zitat von Christian Zuckschwerdt <Christian@Zuckschwerdt.org>:

> On libtool again,
>
> Am 20.05.2009 um 15:21 schrieb Hendrik Sattler:
>>> Sine the USB changes break the API compatibility, -version-info 2:0:0
>>> should be the right thing to do. Or not?
>>
>> Not according to libtool documentation. But Christian doesn't seem to
>> have a problem with the strange numbering...
>
> Those numbers are not intended to convey any meaning to the user. They
> are used by the runtime linker.

No, the runtime linker (at least on Linux) uses the SONAME value which  
is libopenobex.so.2 for the new version. That happens to be a link to  
the real library file.
I agree that the .2 has no value to the user but represent the ABI and  
is solved with the SONAME feature.
The .6.0.0 is just libtool non-sense. I fully do not agree with their  
arguments (yes, I read them). That could be anyhting (e.g. "v1.6" and  
the linker wouldn't care.

> In fact it's a premier example of bad practice to cripple the linker
> capabilities in favour of questionable 'looks'

Libtool always had a questionable concept of doing things.

HS