Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] RSSKit/0.4 silent ABI break

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:55 CEST, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> >> should be a MAJOR.MINOR version.
> >> whereas, rules for version bumps are easy:
> >> minor version bump: stuff that doesn't break binary compatibility,
> >> i.e. addition of a method major version bump: stuff breaking binary
> >> compatibility, i.e. adding removing of a class variable, or removing
> >> of a method
> >>
> >> So, since the new 0.4 version seems to be binary incompatible, the
> >> INTERFACE_VERSION should be 1.0
> > This won't work as you expect with GNUstep Make -- 1.0 and 1.1 will
> > yield different SONAMEs.  Only the SUBMINOR version is not encoded in
> > the SONAME.  1 will be enough, but now it is not necessary to do it as
> > 0.4.0 has been released already and I guess the next release will be
> > binary compatible with 0.4.0, so that would classify as gratuitous
> > soname bump...
> >
> So essentially, you propose to do "nothing" ?
>
> I would still insert INTERFACE_VERSION = 0 though, so at least, it is
> explicit and it helps remember us to bump it in the future.

I think that's the way to go. Maybe going even further, and check everything
in the libs subdirectory if it has a INTERFACE_VERSION, if not, then
add it there too?

Sebastian

>
> Riccardo
>