[libvirt] RFC: Changing version number at start of dev cycle instead of end

Currently throughout the dev cycle we stick on the current release number. The release number in configure.ac is only changed by DV when he is actually cutting the release. With the python bindings now being split out, this is causing us problems. The python code aims to build against any libvirt version that exists, so for example, the new network events APIs in libvirt will be included with version 1.2.1. So the python binding does #if LIBVIR_CHECK_VERSION(1, 2, 1) static void libvirt_virConnectNetworkEventFreeFunc(void *opaque) { PyObject *pyobj_conn = (PyObject*)opaque; LIBVIRT_ENSURE_THREAD_STATE; Py_DECREF(pyobj_conn); LIBVIRT_RELEASE_THREAD_STATE; } ... This works fine if a python release is built against a libvirt release. It does not work if a python git snapshot is built against a libvirt git snapshot. This is bad because it prevents us doing automated builds of GIT. The solution here is fairly simple. We should increase the version number in configure.ac at the *start* of each release cycle. This means that libvirt-python can use the next version number and things will 'just work'. I don't think this is a burden really - we already encode the next version number in our source code when tagging new APIs or driver methods. We're really just bringing autoconf's view of the version number inline with the rest of the code. So if no one objects, we should immediately change configure.ac to be 1.2.1 Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|