[Gluster-devel] libgfapi version format change affecting QEMU-GlusterFS

[Bharata B Rao]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Harshavardhana
<harsha at harshavardhana.net>wrote:

> > "In essence, every time you make a change to the library and
> >     release it, the C:R:A should change. A new library should start
> >     with 0:0:0. Each time you change the public interface
> >     (i.e., your installed header files), you should increment the
> >     CURRENT number."
> >
> > So the version which was 3 became 5 when discard API was added and
> became 6
> > when zerofill was added. As per the above description, API addition will
> > result in a change to the installed header(glfs.h) and hence warrants a
> > change in CURRENT number ? Should you have changed the version to 6.0.0
> > instead of 0.0.6 ?
> >
>
> You are in-fact correct here - i didn't know about the API changes with 3,
> 5, 6.
> I will send out a patch regarding that. Basis on bumping the 'AGE' was
> wrong - since
> i just assumed public interface didn't change.
>

Not for this specific change, but may be it's time to add a test case into
gluster to test QEMU requirements. The last effort in that direction was
made here:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2013-02/msg00014.html

Regards,
Bharata.
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