On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monja...@6wind.com> > wrote: >> >> Not sure about how it can be used in distributions, but it does not hurt >> to provide the config option. >> Are you going to link applications against a fixed DPDK version for >> every libraries? > > > Kind of yes - we can still update "inside" a major version e.g. stable > releases just fine. > That helps a lot transitioning from one to the next release.
Exactly. It enables me to roll out a new major release without being blocked on the (external) consumers to pick up the changes. Now I can do this one by one with reduced risk because the runtimes are clearly separated. > And I already heard that even other downstreams are using it to simplify > their dependencies. > Downstream?! Pha! ;)
