[Openal-devel] OpenAL & freealut Library Versioning

[Ludwig Nussel]

On Saturday 18 February 2006 12:01, Thierry Reding wrote:
> For the time being, I suggest that OpenAL starts with a SONAME of
> libopenal.so.1.  That way we can transition smoothly from our current
> OpenAL in Debian, which doesn't have library versioning at all and thus
> ends up with a (default) SONAME of libopenal.so.0.

Changing the SONAME if there are no actual incompatibilities just
for the sake of a nice number is very annoying. I'd suggest to stay
with libopenal.so.0 and introduce symbol versioning to avoid the
need for SONAME changes.

cu
Ludwig

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