Versioning
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The current versioning of brotli is not clear to me.
There is a git tag 0.2.0, the draft having -05 and we have a define #define BROTLI_VERSION "0.1.0"
Maybe we could agree on something here.
It's just a start with no deeper thought given to it yet. Does brotli have a version number we can use and just add a libbrotli version/number to it or something?
The BROTLI_VERSION should match the git tag until upstream provides one. The version of the draft is for the spec not the library.
Ok, forget the draft.
BROTLI_VERSION could (should ?) be generated by ./configure together with MAJOR, MINOR and PATCH number. ./configure could get this information from a file and/or command, e.g. from 'git describe --tags'.
But that leads us to the point that this repo should be integrated directly into google/brotli !?
We should check with them if they would accept a autotools build env.
WDYT ?
I just presumed it isn't an accident they don't build a library of their own already, so I started this meta project to do it for all of us who prefer using libraries. But yes, ideally they should build a library themselves and no one would be happier if our effort here would help that happen. I'm not counting on that though.
Until that happen, let's do something useful!
So let's just keep configure.ac in sync manually for now. It says 0.1.0 as of @rockdaboot's patch just merged.