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Re: [ITP] znc 1.6.0
- From: Alexey Sokolov <alexey+cygwin at asokolov dot org>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:46:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ITP] znc 1.6.0
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>>>> You ahould ask Yaakov, but I seem to remember that the preferred way to
>>>> name new libraries is now without the hyphen.
>>> Hm, ok...
>>> Yaakov, what's the plan?
>> Dunno about Yaakov, but what counts in the first place is to keep track
>> of the ABI change and only bump the ABI version attached to the DLL name
>> if a new version of the base package breaks it. The ABI version itself
>> is mostly maintained by the project's build system.
> I agree about not breaking ABI without changing the filename. This
> question was not directly related to ABI, however, but is about hyphen.
> For consistency with existing libraries, hyphen is needed, I think. But
> if the policy for new libraries to not use hyphen, I'm fine with that too.
Well, hyphen doesn't harm much anyway, so I'm releasing 1.6.0 now. If
hyphen will need to be removed, I'll do it for 1.7.0.
Achim and Corinna, thanks for advices!