kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

[Allen Winter]

On Monday 03 October 2011 9:37:51 AM Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2011-10-03, Allen Winter <winter at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 03 October 2011 5:04:45 AM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >> A Dilluns, 3 d'octubre de 2011, Alexander Neundorf vàreu escriure:
> >> > On Monday 03 October 2011, Allen Winter wrote:
> >> > > Howdy,
> >> > > 
> >> > > A lot of CMakeLists.txt use the ${GENERIC_LIB_VERSION} to set the so
> >> > > versioning of their libraries. That variable is hard-coded in
> >> > > kdelibs/cmake/modules/KDE4Defaults.cmake
> >> > > 
> >> > > If we rely on kdelibs-4.7 for the KDE SC 4.8 release, then all the
> >> > > shared
> >> > > libraries using ${GENERIC_LIB_VERSION} will be still set to 4.7.  for
> >> > > example the kdepimlbs kcalcore library will be versioned to 4.7.0
> >> > > instead
> >> > > of 4.8.0 in the KDE SC 4.8 release.
> >> > 
> >> > How about simply increasing the version number to 4.8 ?
> >> > This would also give the libs in kdelibs the version number 4.8, but I don't
> >> > see a problem with that.
> >> 
> >> Third time in this thread. This is Dirk's plan all along.
> >> 
> > Ok then.
> > If there are no objections I will increase the variables in kdelibs-4.7 to say "4.8"
> 
> erm. I think it was the plan to do it when we are about to release 4.8.
> not now.
> 
You are correct Sir.
We can't change these variables until we are sure there will be no more 4.7 releases.