[Spice-devel] [PATCH 4/9] build-sys: bump current, as ABI is going to be broken next

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 02:32:45PM +0200, Alon Levy wrote:
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> On 11/18/2013 02:21 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:28:28AM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> >> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
> >> 
> >> --- configure.ac | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2
> >> deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 22e3889..7aa734e
> >> 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
> >> AC_PREREQ([2.57]) # 4. Follow the libtool manual for the so
> >> version: #
> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html
> >>
> >>  -m4_define([SPICE_CURRENT], [9]) +m4_define([SPICE_CURRENT],
> >> [10]) m4_define([SPICE_REVISION], [0]) -m4_define([SPICE_AGE],
> >> [8]) +m4_define([SPICE_AGE], [0])
> > 
> > I'd rather we avoid breaking ABI 'just' for the NBD channel.
> 
> What do you think is the correct criteria?

My criteria would be to never break it, so not really useful. I'd tend to
return the question, if we break the ABI now (which hasn't been done in
recent times), where do we stop? Some stuff in the Opus patches could also be
made easier by breaking ABI, should we break ABI a second time there?

Christophe
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