Apologies, I missed this thread from last year. On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 09:22:45AM +0100, Timofei Zhakov wrote: > According to my research, the majority of libraries use this naming where > they include version after .so part instead of triple-zero. So, I think we > should stick with this style.
Yup, this is perfectly normal and most libtool-consumers do it like this. > To summarise, I think we should first question ourselves whether it is > worth it to even make this change, which potentially violates backward > compatibility guidelines. But I generally support this change. > > [1] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_tgt/SOVERSION.html I'm not too concerned about backwards compat, this is pretty standard stuff for libtool. I'd say the main risk is whether the fiddly handling of $svn_lib_vers (0 vs 2) goes wrong somehow. I'll merge to trunk anyway, can let it stew there for a while; hope that's OK. Regards, Joe
