[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 245296] [GTK] Bump GTK 4 API version to -5.1

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245296

--- Comment #6 from Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Adrian Perez from comment #5)
> (In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #4)
> > Alternatively: we could go crazy and use -6.0 instead, so future people
> > won't confuse -5.1 for "GTK 5". We're already getting complaints from people
> > confused by the similarity between -4.0/-4.1 API versions vs. GTK 4. Version
> > numbers are cheap... might as well?
> > 
> > Carlos, why don't you pick -5.1 or -6.0, whichever you prefer. If no
> > preference, then I'll go with -6.0.
> 
> The completely unambiguous naming scheme™ would be:
> 
>    GTK3 → webkitgtk3-1.0 (or -1.1 with soup3)
>    GTK4 → webkitgtk4-1.0
>    GTK5 → webkitgtk5-1.0 (when GTK5 is released)
>    ...and so on
> 
> We cannot change the GTK3 ones, but we can change going forward.

...because if we are changing the API level, which goes in the soname,
we are changing the soname, and if we are changing the soname anyway,
we may as well change what's at the left of the dash character ;-)

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