[pacman-dev] Correct alpm version to bind to?

[Allan McRae]

On 13/06/17 13:12, Colin Woodbury wrote:
> Hi all, I'm the Aura dev. I'm writing alpm bindings for it, and I got a
> fair distance through before I realized that my up-to-date paper copies and
> the version of `alpm.h` actually bundled with pacman on my machine are
> quite different. The local one (/usr/include/alpm.h) is dated 2016 and has
> types / function signatures that vary a fair amount from what's currently
> on master, although they both report their versions to be 10.0.1.
> 
> Is the most recent alpm supposed to be bundled with pacman? What
> incarnation of alpm does our installed pacman (5.0.1-5 as of this writing)
> bind to itself? Which version should be considered the "ground truth" for
> people writing bindings?
> 


The latest release version is 5.0.2.  This has not made it to Arch Linux
yet, but has no API change from 5.0.1.

The work on master, is the future pacman 5.1.  There is currently no
schedule for when that will be released.

Allan