Re: [Devel] version

[David Turner]

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> hi there,
>
> I just upgrated to the latest version of freetype - 2.1.3,
> or should I say, libfreetype.so.6.3.2, or wait, 9.2.3,
> according to freetype-config. :-)
>
> What do these numbers mean ? Specifically, why doesn't
> freetype-config report the same version numbers that are
> appended to libfreetype.so ?
I don't remember precisely the history behind the numbers.
All I know for sure is that these come from the use of libtool
to generate the shared objects.

Maybe Werner, or some other Unix head here could answer this ?

I agree that this is *really* annoying

Cheers,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)