I think, that the key issue here is this: > version-info is current/revision/age based > version-number is major/minor/tiny based > The former confuses the heck out of me, and I always need to lookup > documentation for it. I suggest you might want to switch to > version-number. Well, the version-info scheme is a bit confusing, but you seem to miss its point.
Those numbers don't exist so the end user can have a pretty number at the end of the library file (as some of the people tend to think). They are an info to the system maintainer, that either ( *all* of the symbols present in the old version are still present and do the same things they did before ) or ( *every* program using this library either needs a rebuild or needs to stick to the previous library version ). So the only thing that matters here is if xcb_atom_get_predefined and xcb_atom_get_name_predefined were *public* API. If they were (and it does seems so), their removal is an ABI break and major number bump is *required*. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
