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[Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 03.02.21 um 08:34 schrieb Holger Vogt:
> To obtain version information of the currently available libngspice-0.so 
> version, you might do the following:
> 
> load libngspice-0 dynamically
> initialze libngspice
> send the command 'version -s'
> retrieve some text response similar to the following:
> 
> ******
> ** ngspice-34
> ** Please get your ngspice manual from 
> http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/docs.html
> ** Please file your bug-reports at 
> http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/bugrep.html
> ** Creation Date: Fri Jan 29 14:27:27 UTC 2021
> ******
> 
> check for ngspice, get the version number
> unload libngspice

I'd say the only reliable long term way is to add a proper libtool
versioning with correct API/ABI integration in ngspice. All other things
will break on various ends again and again and will become PITA.
ngspice-34 comes with new symbols since at least version 28.

-- 
Regrads
Carsten