[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-server v5 1/2] Add support for building with meson/ninja

[Eduardo Lima (Etrunko)]

On 08/08/18 11:17, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 10:42:35AM -0300, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
>> On 08/08/18 08:12, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:27:35PM -0300, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
>>>> +# some global vars
>>>> +spice_server_so_version = '1.12.4'
>>>
>>> How do we update this? With libtool, this was all documented, here it
>>> seems it's never going to be updated ;)
>>
>> In this first moment, I would do it manually, whenever there is a
>> release and the version changes, update that value with the new soversion.
>>
>> In the end it still follows the libtool versioning scheme, not the
>> "current:revision:age" per se, but the result of that. I never really
>> got involved in updating versions, so if someone can translate that to
>> meson, it would be really helpful.
> 
> Well, this is precisely my question ;) I'd like something like
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/blob/master/meson.build#L47

This looks good, and since you took the time to search for it, can you
provide a patch implementing that for us? ;)


> Or maybe we could document something like
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/663209/can-someone-explain-about-linux-library-naming/21462448#21462448
> ?
> 
> Christophe
> 


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Eduardo de Barros Lima (Etrunko)
Software Engineer - RedHat
etrunko at redhat.com