shared library version number snafu?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199806092018.NAA00812@yakisoba.forte-intl.com >you write:
  > >"27.2.1"?!?  I think that is the snafu.  I belive that should
  > >be 2.7.2.1.
  > 
  > Snafu?  I would be interested in why you think it is.  However, here's
  > why I think it's not:
Because there's no such thing as libg++-27.*

There was libg++-2.7.2, possibly even libg++-2.7.2.1, presumably
one of HJ's releases.

If someone hacked the version # because some tool couldn't handle
a 4 part version #, then that person is to blame for the snafu.

jeff