[GRASS5] status of libgrass, mapserver, gdal and >8bit rasters

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:43:28AM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> > I also think that we should release the GRASS libraries as stand-alone
> > package in future (probably with GRASS++ libs, let's jump into the license
> > discussion again...) to add more flexibility in GRASS packaging.
> 
> If you are considering releasing shared libraries as a standalone
> package, we will have to start paying attention to version issues. 
> 
> Specifically, each library will require a version number in its
> soname, and that version number will need to increase whenever an
> incompatible change is made to the library.

Yes. Shouldn't the version number in the soname be added in
any case?

Markus