Re: [Xen-devel] ANNOUNCE: Xen 3.0.5 rename to 3.1.0

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:33:04PM +0200, C?dric Schieli wrote:
> Shouldn't the various library sonames (libblktap, libxenctrl, libxenguest,
> libxutil, libxenstore) also be bumped to 3.1 ?

Why ? Doing that would uneccessarily break any apps built against them.
As a general rule library so versions should not be artificially tied
to the software release number. A new software release does not imply
the library ABI has been changed - so versions should only be changed
when there is an actual ABI breakage to deal with.

Dan.
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