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

Sylvestre Ledru via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Mar 29 03:09:18 PDT 2018


On 22/03/2018 11:46, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 17/03/2018 15:22, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>> On 17 Mar 2018, at 14:48, Sylvestre Ledru via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> In light of the new versioning scheme, this looks very reasonable to me.
>>
> As it seems that nobody objected, could you approve the two patches?
> 
> 
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D41869 - LLVM
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D41808 - Clang

To close the loop, both patches just landed: r328769 & r328768.

Please report bugs in case of regressions and cc me.

Thanks,
Sylvestre

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