From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com (mail-wm0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2002669D4 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:16:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f49.google.com with SMTP id u132so10540495wmg.0 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 02:16:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc; bh=S4FSktdx+Zy3fRieLFETC0+LAwpU3yud6pmbfsiZddI=; b=N7Eq4sA0JRBKB9fwm+aUiFhOlg1+wNfEPG9CaYSe7uyKV1YyjfXPZ0b7BeItcPjxiZ gVo+lcu6T+BBQclzqyOTJAFj4Tdy7ZIVwhUEKALqUYkGqL1mMcYknGTPIRf5gkDLQcQk sZIOSjWDw7LPIKxaF81sxsNh5iZkOg+V6RgiWZ2A2bVhiikjl6Cmgn/nZf8YxQ7X3J3R ys86MFAVsMzeEWecwhZuw0sDfBczkOK3yfeYUZFdof2MKxfDjj0aBi9ZqPlxO0t/CkCo uVrqu/PYoQpdip3nuF2rBxaZ+QKNmW1Y6j3btfF0g1nSf5NkLaSNe6KZN4qZxo6n9dJO ZASg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=S4FSktdx+Zy3fRieLFETC0+LAwpU3yud6pmbfsiZddI=; b=PnMYEqiyuajPK1xm17Ax6KNadmHRpb4j9iNOwCs0izrHGzg8ThJXzu58aAA9q+wIhx r/HLJByzf55SC21Ikp9ei+gjPxTeLMuPfkKMEpYQWi9u2QuxenHdTlK4jUqZdCZMtPAH Ts151aGqQdn/UPWXK0A4B2h9n5ixfdusAPpvpNmhc6qDkDR/xwNxRO1s34RIROwjmYdH 2n0lJ5fNiFMx0UcSdyLufzScwGkKoS0kKnRpz7KxeHePdKjaCOhkMe8k93AyfAa5lgPU x8Vtc0AXS1Tvcx/+UzOvjcJXyx9hi2UY0HdIfSVYYjHCcwbqQ5TwT0M26qHjv2OhXGV6 jwWw== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H1E0tv27mkKbdAgK+2EgdcKBDHpF89v3yNO/Ctg/iW5frSERe0/ynYVC/whxLL/oUFcHonZGniTxZMT2w== X-Received: by 10.28.135.149 with SMTP id j143mr1753015wmd.19.1489742207684; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 02:16:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: jblunck@gmail.com Received: by 10.28.211.20 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 02:16:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1488360852-14458-1-git-send-email-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> <4962963.ZZcnbaMyEK@xps13> From: Jan Blunck Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:16:47 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: FWHVHM7IzANGwYAZXDA7ODKw-NQ Message-ID: To: Christian Ehrhardt Cc: Thomas Monjalon , dev , "cjcollier@linuxfoundation.org" , ricardo.salveti@linaro.org, Luca Boccassi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: Provide option to set Major ABI version 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: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:16:48 -0000 On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon > wrote: >> >> Not sure about how it can be used in distributions, but it does not hurt >> to provide the config option. >> Are you going to link applications against a fixed DPDK version for >> every libraries? > > > Kind of yes - we can still update "inside" a major version e.g. stable > releases just fine. > That helps a lot transitioning from one to the next release. Exactly. It enables me to roll out a new major release without being blocked on the (external) consumers to pick up the changes. Now I can do this one by one with reduced risk because the runtimes are clearly separated. > And I already heard that even other downstreams are using it to simplify > their dependencies. > Downstream?! Pha! ;)