[Gambas-user] Update ide Package module for shared libraries, Make installation packages to have preinst and postinst scripts

T Lee Davidson t.lee.davidson at gmail.com
Tue Feb 25 23:28:45 CET 2020


On 2/25/20 11:59 AM, Brian G wrote:
> Debian deletes all older versions and replaces it with the newer version. Applications depending on the older version of the interface will now fail.

Not necessarily. The applications might fail if the newer version is not backwards compatible.

With Semantic Versioning, the Minor and Patch versions should maintain backwards compatibility. If an upgrade is not backwards 
compatible, then the Major version number should bump. And, that would change the name of the file.


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Lee


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