The Pixar team would prefer option A as well.

  —Wayne

On December 21, 2017 at 8:48:15 AM, Larry Gritz (l...@larrygritz.com) wrote:

I don't have a strong opinion, but the widely used convention is that you
should bump the so version when link compatibility changes. I'm ok with
(a), I don't think I've yet seen 2.2.1 in the wild.


On Dec 20, 2017, at 11:31 PM, Francois Chardavoine <franc...@lucasfilm.com>
wrote:

It has been brought to our attention that the decision to increment the so
version as part of the 2.2.1 release may be problematic:
https://github.com/openexr/openexr/issues/250

It would be great to get any additional community commentary on this. The
.so version was bumped up mainly as an (admittedly conservative)
precautionary measure, since it had been a long time since the previous
release. Given that these are security vulnerability fixes, it's
understandable that there might be in some cases a desire to be able to
drop in replacement builds of OpenEXR without recompiling the host
application.

Two options we can take are:

   - a)- patch the currently tagged 2.2.1 to no longer include an .so
   version change. This could be controversial unless we get feedback that no
   one has adopted 2.2.1 in any significant way yet (to avoid confusion around
   "what version of 2.2.1 did you use?")
   - b)- release a 2.2.2 version which is identical to 2.2.1, except with
   the older so version. This is somewhat inelegant, but likely cleaner than
   option a).


Does the community have any strong positions on this either way?
Francois.


--
Larry Gritz
l...@larrygritz.com




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