Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Version numbers not updated

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:04:26 -0500
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:56:39AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote:
> 
> Suggestion:  change the former to:
> 
> #define PLUGIN_DIR "/usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/" VERSION
> 
> This gets expanded to:
> 
>         "/usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/" "0.8.6"
> 
> which any ANSI compiler should collapse to:
> 
>         "/usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.8.6"

That would work for now, but once we reach version 0.9.0, I was
hoping to keep the plugin directory as "0.9" for as long as the plugin
ABI stayed constant. Of course, I could create another macro called
PLUGIN_VERSION, which is probably the right thing to do.

thanks,

--gilbert