[ghemical-devel] Ghemical-2.95 is now released

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:27:26PM +0300, Tommi Hassinen wrote:
> So, to summarize, there is not much new, but the old stuff is packed in a 
> more neat and clever way, so that it can be handled more easily in the 
> future.

Now that I started packaging the bunch of releases for Debian, I am not
very happy about the library version breakage (i.e. the library changed
e.g. from libghemical.so.0 to libghemical.so.2), were there really
backwards-incompatible changes? So far, not a lot of software is using
mopac or libghemical so it does not matter much as I/we maintain all
anyway, but if application developers cannot target stable APIs, they
will not attract a lot of hackers.

Of course, if there was a valid need to break the API, that is fine, but
I suspect it was simply the coupling of library version to package
version, which is usually the wrong thing to do.


Michael