Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

Josselin Mouette <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.lsb,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <1221848675.5511.1.camel@tomoyo>
Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008 à 17:29 -0400, Thomas Dickey a écrit :
> 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.

You can maintain ABI compatibility by using opaque structures by using
constructor/getter/setter/destructor functions, from the very beginning.

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