provide some track record of the SONAME bumps

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Daniel Stenberg 2009-04-30 08:30:52 +00:00
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@ -52,3 +52,18 @@ Downgrades
that doesn't support the options your application needs. Or possibly you
even downgrade so far so you cross an ABI break border and thus a different
soname, and then your application may need to adapt to the modified ABI.
History
The previous major library soname number bumps (breaking backwards
compatibility) have happened the following times:
0 - libcurl 7.1, August 200
1 - libcurl 7.5 December 2000
2 - libcurl 7.7 March 2001
3 - libcurl 7.12.0 June 2004
4 - libcurl 7.16.0 October 2006