[geos-devel] Petition for a 2.2.2 release

[Sean Gillies]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 9:58 AM, strk at refractions.net wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:15:55AM -0700, Sean Gillies wrote:
>> On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:07 AM, strk at refractions.net wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:35:48PM -0700, Charlie Savage wrote:
>>>> Do we want to include the swig patches I have for 2.2.2?  Includes
>>>> Ruby
>>>> bindings, and more polished Python bindings.
>>>
>>> No problem for me. I'm pretty much assorbed in HEAD, and it might
>>> come out not much later then 2.2.2.
>>> BTW, class renames is finished, did you give HEAD a try with swig ?
>>>
>>> --strk;
>>>
>>
>> Charlie, I feel that we shouldn't make significant changes like that
>> in a point release. Besides, isn't the SWIG API going to break from
>> 2.2 to 3.0? It doesn't make sense to me to release something that
>> will be immediately broken.
>>
>> Anything else I can do to get 2.2.2 out the door, Sandro?
>
> I'm still unsure about versioning of the C library.
> Having added new functions we should increment MINOR.
>
> Could you check what happens using:
>  CAPI_INTERFACE_CURRENT=2
>  CAPI_INTERFACE_REVISION=0
>  CAPI_INTERFACE_AGE=1
> ?
>
> It should produce (on Linux): libgeos_c.so.1.1.0

That's what I get.

>
> SONAME should be libgeos_c.so.1 so this shouldn't represent
> a binary incompatibility. At least it is on my system
> (GNU/Linux)
>
> readelf -a <path_to>/libgeos_c.so | grep -i SONAME
>
> --strk;

Same here. I'll commit that change to configure.in now.

Sean