Yes, I'd say let's definitely bump the SO version with each major release. Is there a JIRA for this already? If not let's create one
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:02 PM, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > Le 24/04/2018 à 19:58, Wes McKinney a écrit : >> >> In summary, until the Arrow developer group grows significantly >> larger, I think we should expect the users of these libraries to "live >> at HEAD". I do think we should make ABI changes transparent and >> well-documented so the pain is minimized. For the moment, we still >> have a lot of development work to do for more people to "care" about >> Apache Arrow and invest in its success long term. > > Perhaps we can also version the installed SO files and bump their > version at each feature relase? Right now it's just "libarrow.so.0" > (pointing to "libarrow.so.0.0.0"). > > Regards > > Antoine.
