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Please add number version in SONAMEs.
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Dear OpenTelemetry Team,
While packaging opentelemetry-cpp for Debian, I noticed the SDK's SONAME lacks a numerical version. While I understand the library has been carefully designed and considering ABI stability, IMO, it would be useful to add a numerical version in case you need to introduce breaking changes in the future. Bumping the SONAME would help to have smooth library transitions.
Could you please consider this?
Than you
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Research direction
Review how the SDK currently generates its SONAMEs and check the project's ABI and versioning policy before proposing a numerical version scheme. Done means the versioning approach is agreed and the generated SONAMEs support safe transitions when breaking changes are introduced.
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- Tech stack
- cpp
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- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
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- 5/5
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- Over a week
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- Stale
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