Re: totally confused by versioning system of libtool...

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Ed Hartnett wrote:
> So this is not actually replacing libexample-0.0.5, it is adding
> libexample-0.0.6, and the loader is smart enough to automatically use
> that in preference to libexample-0.0.5.

Right

> Is that correct? And libexample-0.0.5 stays on the users' systems
> until they feel like deleting it, but it is ignored by the loader
> because a fresher version exists.

Yes.

> But I don't understand why it's not 0.5.0 and 0.6.0. That is, wouldn't
> it be a case of incrementing the minor version number, the middle
> number?

Don't worry about the actual numbers.  They are libtool's 
responsibility.  Some systems use different numbering rules, and 
libtool knows about those special cases.

Bob
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