On Oct 16, 2007, at 4:21 , Ketil Malde wrote:

The major/minor scheme has worked nicely for .so for ages.

i'm not so sure about that. it may be better than alternatives,
but [..]

Also, it sees a lot of testing, at least in current Linux
distributions.  The point is that the end-user experience is pretty
good.

Except it doesn't, quite; note how many packages have started embedding the version in the soname (e.g. foo-1.2.so.*).

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