On 3/8/07, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le jeudi 08 mars 2007 à 06:59 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I noted that many GTK-related library packages are often named in a
> form of libgtk2.0-0 and libglib2.0-0. What's the -0 for?
This is the version information carried in the SONAME. For GTK+, the
SONAME is libgtk-*-2.0.so.0, so the last 0 has to be matched in the
package name as well.
Thanks.
Is the soname some kind of guarantee of API stability? Do other
distros follow a similar practice?
