libjpeg vs. libjpeg-turbo

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Monday May 25 2015 12:51:49 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> > So if libjpeg is to be maintained as a 3rd alternative a patch will be required to change the compatibility and current version that is stored in libjpeg.8.dylib .
> 
> We should not roll back a library's compatibility number. Doing so presumes that the newer version is backwards-compatible with the older version.

Yet it's what IJG did, going from 13 to 11 - I'm not sure I see an interest in a 3-level check that cannot be avoided by renaming files or symlink wizardry if those versions aren't supposed to be increasing across all version evolution...

> It would make more sense to bring libjpeg-turbo up to compatibility version 13.0.0.

That would a(nother) way to do that patch :)

R.