Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 01/10] config: change ABI versioning to global

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

20/11/2019 13:10, Kinsella, Ray:
> From: Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> > --- a/drivers/meson.build
> > +++ b/drivers/meson.build
> > +			if is_experimental != 0
> > +				lib_version = '0.1'
> [rk] This all makes sense - except this part.
> [rk] I would expect the experimental major version to always be zero ...
> [rk] However I would expect the minor version to increment with each new release or at the maintainers discretion. 

Yes, the minor must be incremented with each new release
if we want to allow 2 DPDK versions to be installed in the same system.

This policy must be changed:
"
Experimental libraries always have a major version of 0
to indicate they exist outside of ABI Versioning,
with the minor version incremented with each ABI change to library.
"

I propose to re-use the global ABI version for experimental
by prefixing with "0.".
So for ABI 20.0, it could be 0.20.0 or 0.200? Which one?