Re: [RFC] tools lib traceevent: How to do library versioning being in the Linux kernel source?

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Jan 06 2020 - 11:36:19 EST


On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 13:26:23 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So, we have:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/tools/perf/
>
> trying to mimic the kernel sources tree structure, so perhaps we could
> have:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/tools/lib/{perf,traceevent}/
>
> To continue that directory tree mirror?

Wouldn't that become a bit of manual work. Unlike perf, the versions
will not correspond to the Linux kernel versions. They would need to
follow library versioning.

It would at a minimum require new scripting to get this right.

-- Steve