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From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	WeiLiu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: when to bump library versions (was: <blank>)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 16:53:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160519145336.ug3ysll2tzw4aupk@mac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <573DED8B02000078000ECFB6@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 08:44:59AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 19.05.16 at 16:34, <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:
> > Currently we bump the shared library names just before the release, so ATM 
> > xen-unstable is still using the library names from the 4.6 release. This is 
> > an issue if someone wants to install both Xen 4.6 and xen-unstable in the 
> > same box (unless you use a different prefix/DESTDIR), because libraries from 
> > xen-unstable will replace the stable ones.
> > 
> > IMHO, it would make more sense to bump the library names just *after* we 
> > branch and open the tree for development again.
> 
> As you may have seen in Wei's recent commit, not all libraries have
> their versions bumped for a given release.

IMHO, I would make them all bump, regardless of whether there have been 
changes or not.
 
> > We could even have the 
> > library name versions be set based on XEN_VERSION and XEN_SUBVERSION, so 
> > that we don't need to go around the different library makefiles bumping the 
> > versions manually.
> 
> But so far these two are intentionally private to the xen/ subtree.

Maybe I'm missing something, but couldn't they be global to the whole tree? 
(Config.mk seems like a suitable place).

Roger.

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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-19 14:34 (no subject) Roger Pau Monné
2016-05-19 14:44 ` when to bump library versions (was: <blank>) Jan Beulich
2016-05-19 14:53   ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2016-05-19 15:01     ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-23 11:06       ` George Dunlap
2016-06-06 12:33         ` Wei Liu

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