Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] RSSKit/0.4 silent ABI break

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > should be a MAJOR.MINOR version.
> > whereas, rules for version bumps are easy:
> > minor version bump: stuff that doesn't break binary compatibility,
> > i.e. addition of a method major version bump: stuff breaking binary
> > compatibility, i.e. adding removing of a class variable, or removing
> > of a method
> >
> > So, since the new 0.4 version seems to be binary incompatible, the
> > INTERFACE_VERSION should be 1.0
> This won't work as you expect with GNUstep Make -- 1.0 and 1.1 will
> yield different SONAMEs.  Only the SUBMINOR version is not encoded in
> the SONAME.  1 will be enough, but now it is not necessary to do it as
> 0.4.0 has been released already and I guess the next release will be
> binary compatible with 0.4.0, so that would classify as gratuitous
> soname bump...
So essentially, you propose to do "nothing" ?

I would still insert INTERFACE_VERSION = 0 though, so at least, it is 
explicit and it helps remember us to bump it in the future.

Riccardo