It has been brought to our attention that the decision to increment the so version as part of the 2.2.1 release may be problematic:
It would be great to get any additional community commentary on this. The .so version was bumped up mainly as an (admittedly conservative) precautionary measure, since it had been a long time since the previous release. Given that these are security vulnerability fixes, it's understandable that there might be in some cases a desire to be able to drop in replacement builds of OpenEXR without recompiling the host application.
Two options we can take are:
- a)- patch the currently tagged 2.2.1 to no longer include an .so version change. This could be controversial unless we get feedback that no one has adopted 2.2.1 in any significant way yet (to avoid confusion around "what version of 2.2.1 did you use?")
- b)- release a 2.2.2 version which is identical to 2.2.1, except with the older so version. This is somewhat inelegant, but likely cleaner than option a).
Does the community have any strong positions on this either way?
Francois.