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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Andrey Kiselev wrote:
>
> I have finally decided to retain the same versioning system for the
> libtiff 3.7.0 as for the previous librarry versions. 3.7.0 should be
> absolutely binary compatible with the the 3.6.1.
>
> Versioned symbols should be introduced in the next library release
> (4.x.x) which will be incompatible in many aspects, namely the 64-bit
> pointers.

This seems like quite a quantum leap.  Now that libtiff is actively 
developed/maintained again, I hope that there is room for 3.7.1, 
3.7.2, etc., as required in order to incorporate bug fixes and minor 
feature additions.

Bob
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