Micha Nelissen schrieb:
I think on windows, it's not "forbidden" to put the version number in
the number, e.g. msvc, and delphi vcl do it. So having the major version
in the name seems most logical.
Yes. But what about having e.g. version 2.0 and 2.1, where 2.1 is
backwards compatible to 2.0, but introduces new functions. How should an
application distuingish between a "real" 2.0 DLL and a 2.1 DLL, when
both have the same filename?
On Linux this is typically solved by having the minor version number in
the filename as well, and creating symlinks for only the major number.
(at least roughly speaking, the cases with -0, -1 etc. as suffix are a
different matter...)
- Sebastian
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