[Gluster-devel] libgfapi version format change affecting QEMU-GlusterFS
Vijay Bellur
vbellur at redhat.com
Sat Jan 25 10:46:40 UTC 2014
On 01/25/2014 04:13 PM, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Harshavardhana
> <harsha at harshavardhana.net <mailto: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
>
Yes, it would be good to revive this. For some obvious and non-obvious
reasons, we have not got this working. I will mail you and Poornima
off-list to see how we can get this rolling.
Thanks,
Vijay
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