MaskRay added a comment.

In D129160#3716016 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D129160#3716016>, @isuruf wrote:

> As a downstream packager of libclang, I really like the SONAME not changing 
> in libclang. It makes it possible for us to package things like qt that 
> depend on libclang, but not have to rebuild qt for every major revision of 
> LLVM.
> It's not clear to me what the reason for removing this is. Can someone help 
> me understand why this useful feature was removed?

Too many users have complained that an unchanged soname may suggest some bugs 
in the build system.


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