[xmlsec] versioning and library naming policies

Aleksey Sanin aleksey@aleksey.com
Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:03:52 -0800


Well, I have to disagree with this. If you use development release, then 
you are
doing on you own. Nobody promises nothing. IMHO, development release are
*not* intended to be packaged, incuded in distributions, whatsoever.

Aleksey

John Belmonte wrote:

> Rich Salz wrote:
>
>> Disagree.  You can change N when you start an incompatible branch, not
>> during development.
>
>
> I've been trying to point out that there is nothing magical about a 
> development release.  Development releases often get packaged as rpm's 
> and deb's, and need to play nice just as stable releases.  The entity 
> using the library needs to know if binary compatibility was broken, 
> even within the sequence of releases in a development branch.
>
> -John
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