> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 17:04, Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org> wrote: > > Good question. libtool has machinery to track this stuff. My > > aforementioned patch uses libtool's "-version-info 0" and > > "-version-info 1". How does libtool handle -version-info on Windows?
[Greg Stein] > We don't use libtool on Windows. Simple as that :-P ... IOW, we'd > have to figure out how to fix the problem within our current Windows > system. Right ... I mainly just meant, if libtool supports the Win32 platform, we should look at how they handle DLL versioning, and do something similar. > > *Nod*. So, more or less table the issue until apr2 gets to a point > > where it's being shipped to end users and apr1 is not. > > when that's expected to happen, but presumably it's not a concern for > > 1.7.x. > > APR 1.x is going to be around for a long, long time. I don't know > that "apr1 is not" will ever happen because I think svn is going to > continue to rely on it, so it'll need to stick around. Well, I was mainly thinking of platforms like Gentoo Linux that seem like they're big on early adoption and not so big on ABI stability and support lifetime. I don't know if my perception is accurate, but I get the feeling they are, in general, happy to accept "recompile the world" as a substitute for keeping old libraries around for a gradual upgrade transition. But it's possible that even the early adopters will continue to provide apr1 for a good long time yet. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
