llvm dev - Mar 2018 - Proposition: 7.0 => 7 in library names

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

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.

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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

Thanks
Sylvestre

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