[NeXus-tech] library versioning by file name

[Pete R. Jemian]

As we say: "I have no dog in this fight."
Sounds OK by me.

On 2/24/2010 8:24 PM, freddie.akeroyd at stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> These are the notes for using libtool to do it
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Versioning.html#Versioning
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> http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Release-numbers.html#Release-numbers
>
> we have currently been using a default -version-info of “0:0:0” (hence
> libNeXus.so.0.0.0 and an internal soname of libNeXus.so.0)
>
> If I set the -version-info to “4:2:4” then we get a library name of
> libNeXus.so.0.4.2 with an internal soname also of libNeXus.so.0 and
> hence no break in previous application compatibility
>
> If we want to have libNeXus.so.4.2.0 then we need to do it by hand and
> set an soname of libNeXus.so.4 (but leaving a libnexus.so.0 around so as
> not to break compatibility). The advantage of libtool is that it will
> handle windows and mac versioning for us, but at the expense of slightly
> worse visible version numbers.
>
> What do people think
>
> BTW I have added a NXgetversion function
>
> Freddie
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