[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] Use x.y soname versioning

[Kieran Bingham]

Does any one have any thoughts on this series?

I'd like to at least figure out if I can merge the utils/abi-compat.sh
tooling already.

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Regards

Kieran

Quoting Kieran Bingham (2023-05-15 10:58:10)
> Users of libcamera will benefit from not having to recompile
> applications and frameworks against every new release point of
> libcamera. While we don't yet mandate a stable ABI we are currently
> incrementing the SONAME for 'every release'.
> 
> With automatic ABI breakage detection we can improve this situation so
> that we only increment the SONAME when there is an ABI breakage.
> 
> This will extend the compatbiilty of applications for longer and reduce
> the burden on application writers and packagers, and by incrementing the
> minor number on any breakage point we can make clear human readable
> indicators of what versions are compatible.
> 
> We retain the leading 'major version 0' to indicate we are not yet
> feature complete.
> 
> The abi-compat script currently produces an HTML file, but can be
> adapted later to output XML and be processed by any additional automated
> tooling that might be suitable to report directly on patches and
> branches when ABI breakages occur.
> 
> 
> Kieran Bingham (2):
>   utils: ABI Compatibility checker
>   meson: Use x.y soname versioning
> 
>  meson.build         |  10 +--
>  utils/abi-compat.sh | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 utils/abi-compat.sh
> 
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