Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6
Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 13:40:14 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> .... from the upstream POV, this would be another ABI transition. >>> >>> If there's no patch, there's nothing to discuss, then. >> >> Going forward, though, can you avoid potential issues like this >> by maintaining better ABI compatibility between versions? >> i.e. when you add a libncurses.so.7, can you make it so >> that all apps that linked against libncurses.so.6 still continue >> to work without recompilation? > > This doesn't make any sense. If all apps linked against the previous > version continued to work without recompilation, it wouldn't be an > incompatible ABI change, and so wouldn't require a SONAME bump. agree - I don't know how to guarantee that five years from now there'd be no ABI change - the best I can do is maintain API compatibility. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net