Re: Shared library versions

What we should have done is ask which API's changed for 7.1.  I know I
just changed the libpq++ API for 7.2.


> On Wed, 9 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > We did not bump the shared library versions before the 7.1 release.
> > > Maybe we should do this before 7.1.2 goes out.
> >
> > I thought I did that long ago for 7.1, or I should have anyway.  I don't
> > see the commits either.  Seems we can't do it in a minor release.  Will
> > have to wait for 7.2, but since there really wasn't much API change in
> > 7.1, I think we are OK.  Not sure if we should update them if there are
> > no API changes, or were there?
> 
> IMHO, it should only be changed if there are incompatibilities between
> releases ... we modify the API, mainly ... anything more then that, and
> we're making ppl recompile to pull in libraries that only unlying code has
> changed, but not the API ...
> 
> 
> 

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