[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] meson: Use x.y soname versioning

[Umang Jain]

Hi Kieran,

Thank you for the patch .

On 7/4/23 4:24 PM, Kieran Bingham via libcamera-devel wrote:
> Now that we identify ABI breakages, provide incremental releases which
> can support backwards compatible linkage across release points that have
> a compatible ABI.
>
> Introduction of this commit does not convey that libcamera now has a
> stable API, but that patch releases with a common minor number
> (0.minor.patch) may potentially be used by applications without
> recompilation and linkage against new releases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>

Reviewed-by: Umang Jain <umang.jain at ideasonboard.com>

> ---
>   meson.build | 10 ++++------
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index e1fd924307f7..9c1e708131eb 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -56,15 +56,13 @@ if libcamera_version != project_version
>       libcamera_git_version += '-nvm'
>   endif
>   
> -# Until we make ABI compatible releases, the full libcamera version is used as
> -# the soname. No ABI/API compatibility is guaranteed between releases (x.y.z).
> -#
> -# When automatic ABI based detection is used to increment the version, this
> -# will bump the minor number (x.y).
> +# The major and minor libcamera version components are used as the soname.
> +# No ABI/API compatibility is guaranteed between releases (x.y).
>   #
>   # When we declare a stable ABI/API we will provide a 1.0 release and the
>   # soversion at that point will be the 'major' release value (x).
> -libcamera_soversion = libcamera_version
> +semver = libcamera_version.split('.')
> +libcamera_soversion = semver[0] + '.' + semver[1]
>   
>   summary({ 'Sources': libcamera_git_version, }, section : 'Versions')
>