[GiNaC-devel] Release

Jens Vollinga jensv at nikhef.nl
Sun May 22 12:01:18 CEST 2011


Hi,

Am 22.05.2011 09:07, schrieb Richard B. Kreckel:
> Any objections to make the new soname libginac.so.2?

Just a few questions ...

> Rationale: Okay, the old scheme was libginac-1.5.so.0, so it looks like
> no problem, but distributions might have packages named libginac1.5 and
> would prefer to continue with libginac2, because libginac0 breaks
> lexicographic ordering.

As of commit f320e27e9 the name has changed to libginac.so. So,
what do you mean with libginac0? Where does this 0 come from?!?

More importantly, why does lexicographic ordering matter?!?

Regards,
Jens


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