Re: release numactl-1.0.3?

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:00:53AM -0500, Cliff Wickman wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:43:24PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:55:05AM -0500, Cliff Wickman wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > >   Anyone have anything to add/change for numactl-1.0.3-rc2 ?
> > >    ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/libnuma/download/numactl-1.0.3-rc2.tar.gz
> > >   
> > >   I have maintainership of the numactl project on freshmeat.net:
> > >     http://freshmeat.net/projects/numactl/
> > >   
> > >   So I propose to change numactl-1.0.3-rc2 to numactl-1.0.3
> > >   and announce it as new release on freshmeat.
> > 
> > Does it already include changes for larger bitmaps? In that case
> > i would rather increment the version number more to make it clear
> > that it is a kind of binary incompatible release (2?)
> > 
> > -Andi
> 
> It does include the variable size bitmaps.  That is a large change
> that may be worthy of an increment to version 2.
> 
> On the other hand, it also includes symbol versioning, making libnuma
> binary compatible with old codes.

But breaks the source compatibility, right? 

If you do that please both increase the major number and supply
some compat wrappers with a  compat define for old programs that they can use 
to still compile.

Thanks,

-Andi
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