Why do b) as well if we go with a) ?

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Richard Addison-Wood <rich...@wetafx.co.nz>
wrote:

> How about both options a and b?
>
>
> On 12/22/17 05:56, Wayne Wooten wrote:
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>
>
>  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.
>
>
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