Re: NetworkManager 0.7 Released

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 17:39 +0000, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:05:15PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 15:02 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:50:40PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 22:59 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > > Well... libnm-util did, but libnm-util for 0.6 was only meant to be used
> > > > between the applet and NM itself.  libnm_glib ABI/API should be the same
> > > > between 0.6 and 0.7, because the 0.7 libnm_glib actually includes all of
> > > > the 0.6 libnm_glib.
> > > 
> > > The NM applet is still an external application though and libnm-util is
> > > still a proper library. So proper library versioning is still something
> > > that needs to be done. Especially if nothing actually used it, then bumping
> > > the soname shouldn't be a hassle.
> > 
> > I understand how it's supposed to work, yes, but if we don't break the
> > ABI/API going forward past 0.7, should we bump the soname and require a
> > recompile of everything that uses libnm-util and libnm-glib now?  Or
> > just tell distros to set up a symlink?
> 
> I don't understand the symlink comment.. I don't know how many distributions
> are already shipping NM 0.7 with the current sonames. Obviously if you're going
> to bump the soname, it should be done asap to minimize transition pain.
> 
> Pratically, once people have started shipping a library with a new ABI but
> without a soname bump, you've already lost. Imho it still makes sense to bump
> the soname now and have those that shipped 0.7 very early go through the little
> bit of pain a soname transitions gives. As it will smoothen the 0.6 => 0.7
> transition for those that still have to do that. But obviously i'm slightly
> biased here as Debian tends to care more about these things then most other
> distributions :)

So you mean do a soname bump on the _stable_ branch of 0.7, for what
would be the 0.7.1 release, correct?

Dan