[Ffmpeg-devel] versions, ABIs and sonames

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Saturday 23 July 2005 22:20, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:00:28AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > would there be some interrest in having nice standard a.b.c versions for
> > each lib (libavformat, libavcodec, libpostproc)?
> > so that an increase of
> > c means no binary compatibility breakage
> > b means backward compatibility (added function, ...)
> > a means no compatibility (function removial, ...)
>
> yes, but (c) seems pointless.  if there is no compatability issue,
> then why bother?

the version is stored in encoded files, encoders have bugs (every non trivial 
thing does and an encoder is non trivial) decoders need to know which encoder 
exactly was used if they wish to workaround these bugs


>
> > and just to clarify, yes for cvs not the yearly releases, the later would
> > be pointless as they always break compatiblity entirely
>
> why remove it for the release?  what harm is it?  some packaging
> systems actually use (and expect) .so versioning.

s/not/not only/ and read again

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Michael