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On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 20:01:49 +0100, Niocláiſín Cóilín de Ġloſtéir wrote:

> [. . .] Furthermore, AWS 25 needs Gnatcoll 25, and as usual each new
> library version has a new soname.
> 
> An electronic engineer who also used to be a GNU/Linux administrator had
> already perceived this problem of shared libraries in the Year 2006.

Note the soname part. That only increments when there are backward-
incompatible changes to the ABI. Otherwise you could install the new 
version, and existing compiled code would run against it just fine.

Consider the transition in the Linux world from libc5 to GNU libc6. That 
happened over 20 years ago. Isn’t it time for libc7? No, because they have 
been able to keep all the changes backward-ABI-compatible so far.