Oldish thread.. * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:30:32AM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 10:35:32PM CEST: > >>Charles Wilson wrote: > >> > >>>Huh? Right now (on cygwin) the shared library built by 1.5.x libtool is > >>>"cygltdl-3.dll" (e.g. current - age == 3). > >>> > >>>Somebody somewhere already bumped the c:r:a numbers in HEAD because > >>>libtool-HEAD on cygwin creates cygltdl-6.dll. So which previous > >>>**releases** of libltdl are you trying to distinguish from, here, Ralf? > >> > >>My thoughts too at first, but checking 1.9f current was already 6, and > >>this is an incompatible change with 1.9f. > > > > > > First this, and besides I was referring to this policy in HACKING: > > | * Double check that libltdl version number updates weren't forgotten > > | since last release (they should be updated in CVS along with commits > > | that require it so that users can work with CVS snapshots). > > > > which, I believe, stems from the fact that somebody needed post-1.5 > > stuff but with 2.0 not in sight. > > Hmmm... good catch, I hadn't spotted that, but... > > > So while we are at it, it might be a good idea to remove the > > parenthesized part.. > > Yes, I agree. It seems wrong to churn the numbers so fast. I don't > think it is too much to expect people who track CVS to have to deal > with regressions and experimental apis that later get fixed to restore > backwards compatibility. Can you fix that please?
Applied this patch to CVS HEAD. Cheers, Ralf * HACKING: Only update libltdl version info before release. Index: HACKING =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/HACKING,v retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u -r1.20 HACKING --- HACKING 17 Sep 2005 07:29:01 -0000 1.20 +++ HACKING 25 Sep 2005 10:22:46 -0000 @@ -368,9 +368,8 @@ since last release (they should be updated in CVS along with commits that require it so that users can work with CVS snapshots). -* Double check that libltdl version number updates weren't forgotten since last - release (they should be updated in CVS along with commits that require it so - that users can work with CVS snapshots). +* Update the libltdl VERSION_INFO in Makefile.am for changes since the last + release. * Update the version number in configure.ac. See http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/contribute.html for details of