Re: [Ganglia-developers] libganglia version

2007-10-25 Thread Brad Nicholes
>>> On 10/25/2007 at 11:06 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bernard Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Brad: > > On 10/25/07, Brad Nicholes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My vote would be that anything within the 3.1.x version must remain > backward compatible. If a patch breaks backwar

Re: [Ganglia-developers] libganglia version

2007-10-25 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Brad: On 10/25/07, Brad Nicholes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My vote would be that anything within the 3.1.x version must remain > backward compatible. If a patch breaks backward compatibility, then it must > only be applied to a future 3.x, 4.x, etc. version. Okay, it sounds like your

Re: [Ganglia-developers] libganglia version

2007-10-25 Thread Brad Nicholes
My vote would be that anything within the 3.1.x version must remain backward compatible. If a patch breaks backward compatibility, then it must only be applied to a future 3.x, 4.x, etc. version. Brad >>> On 10/25/2007 at 10:27 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bernard Li" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Ganglia-developers] libganglia version

2007-10-25 Thread Bernard Li
Thanks Marcus for the clarifications. So basically the question is really how much we care about library compatibilities and whether we want users to be able to install multiple versions of libganglia/ganglia at the same time. Something along the lines of, whether you want to allow libganglia.so.

Re: [Ganglia-developers] libganglia version

2007-10-24 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2007-10-19 11:22:53 -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > Currently the SONAME for libganglia in trunk is: > > SONAME libganglia-3.1.0.so.0 > > Is there any particular reason why it is version specific? i.e. I > suppose this allows the user to install multiple versions of > libganglia with differen

[Ganglia-developers] libganglia version

2007-10-19 Thread Bernard Li
Currently the SONAME for libganglia in trunk is: SONAME libganglia-3.1.0.so.0 Is there any particular reason why it is version specific? i.e. I suppose this allows the user to install multiple versions of libganglia with different versions, but is this really necessary? This would ultimate