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Date:   Mon, 6 Jan 2020 11:36:15 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] tools lib traceevent: How to do library versioning being
 in the Linux kernel source?
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 13:26:23 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com> 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