Re: [libvirt] Libvirt debug API

On 04/09/2010 07:41 AM, Chris Lalancette wrote: Providing two side-by-side libraries under the libvirt package umbrella makes sense to me, but it means we need to start thinking more seriously about library version numbers. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-April/msg00226.html for some food for thought; in particular, the idea that since we create our library (or libraries, after this proposal is enacted) via libtool, we should be using the libtool versioning scheme for the .so files, which would be independent from the libvirt package number. It is entirely feasible to have a release that increments the version number of one but not both .so, or which increments them in different manners (libvirt increasing current and age, because it added new APIs but is still backwards compatible, while the helper library resets age to 0 because it added a backwards incompatible change). -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org