What's the status of (stabilizing and?) versioning libraries? If I recall correctly, it was supposed to be defined as fixed for some release period as of 1.3.something.
I assumed that the libraries would then be versioned (at least for ELF -- I don't know about other formats) and we could remove a major source of grief from dynamically linking against the wrong thing, and I think Jeff said that would happen. However, the current sources don't seem to be trying to set libtool version info, though I'm not sure what determines them producing .so.0.0.1 instead of .0.0.0 in other binaries I have. This doesn't seem to have been addressed in the Debian or Fedora packaging, either Is that just an oversight or something dropped, so it could be fixed (modulo historical mess) if someone did the work? It isn't covered under http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/versions/ or as far as I can tell in the FAQ, and seems important (like plenty of other things, I'm sure!), given how much of a problem it's been for users and admins doing updates.
