19/02/2020 12:43, Neil Horman: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:50:09AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 18/02/2020 10:42, Bruce Richardson: > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:15:56AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I would like to remind everybody our mistake when defining ABI versions. > > > > It has been "fixed" in this commit: > > > > http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=f26c2b39 > > > > > > > > Please let's think about the consequence for the experimental libraries. > > > > > > > > In DPDK 19.11, we use the ABI version 0.200 with soname 0.20 In DPDK > > > > 20.02, we use the ABI version 0.2001 with soname 0.201 Numbers are > > > > increasing, that's fine. When we'll switch to the new major ABI and use > > > > a normal numbering: In DPDK 20.11, we will use the ABI version 0.210 > > > > with > > > > soname 0.21 Numbers are dropping. > > > > > > > > In short, for experimental libs, ABI 20.1 > ABI 21.0 > > > > > > > > Are we OK with this or do we prefer reverting to normal numbering for > > > > experimental libraries in DPDK 20.02? > > > > > > > Personally, I would not be too concerned about the verions of experimental > > > libs, so long as they don't conflict across versions and have some > > > similarity to the major ABI version for the release. > > > > You think sorting of the version numbers is not important? > > If we don't care comparing experimental version numbers, > > then OK, let's drop this patch. But please we need a small vote. > > > > Note: there would be no problem if we did not vote for having > > a special numbering for pure experimental libraries (I am still against). > > > I don't understand. Why would we change the ABI_VERSION at all in an LTS > release at > all? This operation is meant to take an an experimental API and mark it as > stable by promoting its version number to the next major releases number. As > such, in the LTS release, we should keep the soname the same, as there should > be > no other ABI changes in the promoted API.
The library version number is updated because we add new symbols.
