Re: [TCLCORE] FreeBSD shared library names, advise please! [Was: SONAME for libtk86.so.1]

[Stuart C. <st...@be...>]

On 03/20/14 12:27, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> On 2014-Mar-20, 14:18, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
>> We never really "required" version numbers, afaik. Those are mainly
>> needed to specify dependencies, in case of an API/ABI change. For
>> example, if 8.6.2 would be incompatible in some way with 8.6.1, we'd
>> bump the shlib version number, so other packages can be told to depend
>> on .2 instead of .1. I know this is not the case with tcl, so I'm really
>> pondering dumping the shlib version completely. I'm consulting others
>> inside the FreeBSD camp to get a more strong opionion on this.
> 
> I confirm that we don't require a version. We could easily switch to 
> libtcl86.so. Still, I'd like to keep to nodots version.
> 


https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/policies-shlib.html

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