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

[T Lee Davidson]

On 2/25/20 6:20 PM, Brian G wrote:
> Yes that is what I am suggesting
> 
> thank you
> brian
> 

I was speaking of Semantic Versioning independently of what you are suggesting.

In my reading of your previous message, I did not realize the underscore character was not merely your way of formatting the 
message. "The package name is only considered to the first '_' and the rest is versioning," would have been more clear to my 
feeble mind. Now I understand how what you are suggesting might be helpful.


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Lee


> 
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:29 PM -0800, "T Lee Davidson" <t.lee.davidson at gmail.com <mailto:t.lee.davidson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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.
>