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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/README.curl_off_t | 8 |
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diff --git a/lib/README.curl_off_t b/lib/README.curl_off_t index 01316152b..fa687c67b 100644 --- a/lib/README.curl_off_t +++ b/lib/README.curl_off_t @@ -38,3 +38,11 @@ The strong connection to off_t made it troublesome for application authors since when they did mistakes, they could get curl_off_t type of different sizes in the app vs libcurl, and that caused strange effects that were hard to track and detect by users of libcurl. + +SONAME +------ + +We opted to not bump the soname for the library, simply because soname bumping +is causing a lot of grief and moaning all over the community so we try to keep +that at minimum. Also, our selected design path should be 100% backwards +compatible for the vast majority of all libcurl users. |