[cfe-dev] Proposition: 7.0 => 7 in library names

[Franz Fehringer via cfe-dev]

Hi Sylvestre,

Any hope for libc++ on apt.llvm.org (hoping not being too annoying)?

Best regards

Franz


Am 17.03.2018 um 14:48 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru via cfe-dev:
> Hello,
>
> Context: I have been packaging the llvm toolchain for Debian & Ubuntu
> and also providing these packages on https://apt.llvm.org/.
> One of the goal is to have different versions co-installable. For that,
> I am renaming the binaries and libraries.
>
> Now, as we are not using the minor version (the Y in X.Y.Z), there isn't
> much point in calling our tools foo-7.0 as we won't create a 7.1.
> See http://blog.llvm.org/2016/12/llvms-new-versioning-scheme.html for
> more information on this.
>
> Proposition: Remove the .0 everywhere in lib name.
>
> I have been publishing this change on top of the Debian/Ubuntu packages
> for a couple of months now (basically since trunk became 7).
> Packages are now called clang-7 instead of clang-6.0
> I believe I have been able to rename all occurrences that I found and I
> haven't seen anyone complaining (besides the few expected issues).
>
> Patches are available here:
>
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D41869 - LLVM
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D41808 - Clang
>
> AFAIK, nothing is needed for lldb or lld.
>
> This is also the path that gcc took (and Debian is doing the same from
> gcc-5).
>
> Any comments or objections?
>
> Thanks,
> Sylvestre
>
>
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