[Coin-discuss] yet another forgotten so-name change?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:40 +0100, Stefan Vigerske wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> >> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:54 +0100, Stefan Vigerske wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> >>>>> I was trying to get coinutils up-to-date but uploading version 2.6.0 to
> >>>>> debian caused build failures in almost all other coin packages (see
> >>>>> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=sonne@debian.org )
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> One of the reasons is that coinutils forgets to install CoinOslC.h
> >>>> I merged a fix from trunk to stable/2.6 for this issue. Do you need a
> >>>> new release now?
> >>> Yes thanks, that would help! Can you do that immediately? Or should I
> >>> for the time being just copy that file?
> >> There is a 2.6.1 now.
> > 
> > where? It is not here yet
> > http://www.coin-or.org/download/source/CoinUtils/ ?
> 
> That may take a day or so.
> It's in the svn: https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinUtils/browser/releases
> svn checkout https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/CoinUtils/releases/2.6.1

The tarball creator runs nightly.

> 
> >>>>> But in addition coinor-osi fails to build since some things changed in
> >>>>> the API right?
> >>>> Yes. Osi 0.102 should work with CoinUtils 2.6.
> >>> But why not 0.100.2 ...?

Policy says that an API change requires at least a minor version bump.
Bug fixes that don't change the API get point releases.

I don't recall exactly what changed in each minor version update, but
that's how it's designed to work.

> >> The third number is reserved for releases from the same stable branch
> >> (no API change).
> >> So, after 0.100 the next stable versions are 0.101, 0.102,...
> > 
> > but shouldn't this then be reflected in the soname of the lib?
> 
> Yes, but it isn't.
> There is some development to have this working some day.
> 
> Stefan
> 

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