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

["Kinsella, Ray" <ray.kinsella@intel.com>]

+1 - that's a plan.

Ray K

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> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Wednesday 20 November 2019 13:32
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> <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 01/10] config: change ABI versioning to global
> 
> 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?
>