Re: ABI guarantees
Gleb Popov <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> wrote: > > I do hope that we would continue care about ABI. Of course with our resources > we cannot be perfect at level of Windows, but we can do much better than > we do now. As do I. A bit of context why I'm interested in the rock-solid ABI guarantees: I'm working on bringing the AppImage [1] support for FreeBSD, which is basically a statically-linked self-contained application that doesn't need to be installed - just downloaded, akin to MacOS apps. If we want an AppImage built on FreeBSD X to continue working on FreeBSD X+N, the ABI compatibility should be maintained. I find it a noble goal to be able to download an ancient AppImage built on some previous FreeBSD version and then it would just work. [1] https://docs.appimage.org/introduction/index.html