Hi Joe, Joe Stringer <[email protected]> writes:
> The current intent for Open vSwitch is to maintain libopenvswitch ABI > stability for minor versions, for example each release within the 2.7.z > series. According to the following documentation, no changes to exported > headers should be made. > > http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/internals/contributing/libopenvswitch-abi/ > > However, it is occasionally necessary to make changes to > {include/openvswitch,lib}/*.h headers to fix issues within a given > release series. The current libtool tagging mechanism in the build > system does not allow for this without creating a conflict between the > libtool 'current' version and the next minor release of OVS. > > This patch modifies libopenvswitch build to include the MAJOR.MINOR > release version in the libX name, and include the libtool CURRENT and > OVS MICRO release in the libtool versioning tags to indicate library > stability. The resulting format is "libfoo-X.Y.so.CURRENT.0.Z" for OVS > release "X.Y.Z". > > Developers should still attempt to avoid introducing ABI-breaking changes > within a particular OVS-X.Y release series, but if this is not possible > this patch introduced a mechanism to allow an ABI-breaking fix to be > introduced. In such a case, developers may update the libtool CURRENT > version to indicate this breakage to library users. > > Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> > --- Acked-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
