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WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14003768.tv2OnDr8pf@xps> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AuthUser: mdr@ashroe.eu Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] ABI version of experimental libraries X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 21/02/2020 16:57, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 19/02/2020 14:50, Ray Kinsella: >> On 19/02/2020 12:43, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> So while experimental library version numbers are not "important". >> I do agree with Thomas they should be sane, increase and should have a consistent format. >> >> Should we always just pad them to 4 places as the simple solution? >> i.e. >> >> DPDK 19.11 ... 0.20 (needs to remain 0.20). >> DPDK 20.02 ... 0.2001 >> DPDK 20.11 ... 0.2100 >> DPDK 21.02 ... 0.2101 > > A patch from Ferruh got merged. > It is adding a dot to keep versioning consistent. > > Marking this patch as rejected. > Ferruh's was a better solution.