[ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Support building python ovs package with native json impl

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 10:48:39AM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 01:45:05PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
> >> Also, FYI (and this is sortof a side-note) the libtool ABI versioning
> >> information hasn't changed since 2014;  bumping / managing that may
> >> become an additional release burden if we start building on top of it,
> >> and expect to ship it around.  Imagine an install of this python package
> >> from ovs 2.7.0 and a future openvswitch package 3.0.0; they currently
> >> both see libtool version tag of 1:0:0
> >
> > Should we bump the libtool version now?  We're nearing a release, so
> > it's about the right time.
> 
> Sorry for the late response.  I think it's probably appropriate to bump
> at least the libtool 'age'.  I'm not sure what kinds of ABI changes have
> happened since introduction though - the interface 'major' version may
> need to change.

I'm pretty sure we've busted ABIs left and right since 2014, so a major
version update should be appropriate.

> > libtool version numbering rules:
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html
> 
> Thanks for the refresher.  It's always a pain to remember which field
> means what in the libtool parlance.

Yes.  I can remember the Unix rules, but not the libtool ones.