[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [ANNOUNCE] management tarballs release

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 00:17 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> On 13:53 Wed 09 Jul     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > > 
> > > It is just *.ver file, *.map is symbol versioning - there were additions,
> > > no changes in existing functions API.
> > 
> > Isn't that needed too when APIs are added ?
> 
> I don't think.
> 
> > Also, some existing
> > functions had minor parameter changes (like const being added).
> 
> Yes, but it does not touch ABI and doesn't affect a linker.
> 
> > > > > this will take effect in the next daily build.
> > > > 
> > > > The tar balls just issued won't be reissued ?
> > > 
> > > There were some commits after this already.
> > 
> > Shouldn't there be a branch for this if that is an issue ?
> 
> And then to do libibmad-1.2.1.1? Looks like an overkill for this
> particular case - 1.2.* is in development period and the issue is pretty
> minor - we will fix it in today's daily build and in the next tarball
> release.

Also, what about backward compatibility with apps built with the
previous version of these libraries ? That's mainly a libibmad issue
right now. I'm pretty sure there are some out of tree apps using
libibmad based on some of the previous email traffic on this list.

-- Hal

> Sasha
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