Re: [platform-swt-dev] abi and versioning

[David Whiteman <dlwhiteman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 7:04:11 AM, Chris McKillop wrote:

> SWT isn't a library either, it is a DLL.  Semantics perhaps, but it doesn't
> set a SONAME nor do you ever link (-lswt) with it.  I am not sure what
> the policy is at OTI for upping the number, but it appears gets upped every 
> 4-6 weeks.  SWT itself shares a version number with Eclipse (ie: 2.1) while
> the DLL is simply incremented over time.  You always use a matched set of
> swt.jar and libswt*.so for a given platform, so you don't replace one
> without replacing the other.

From my observation, the number appears to be incremented once per
week, in conjunction with the weekly Eclipse builds.

David
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