On 22 November 2012 at 22:41, Steffen Neumann wrote: | Hi, | | On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 15:22 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | ... | > But as soon as we change a structure or header somewhere, things potentiall | > go boom. We try to be careful, but we are also eager to get new "stuff" out. | | New stuff is great! The problem is if the ABI changes, | and normal shared libraries have the same problem, I guess. | There, the dynamic linker somehow solves the problem,
The dynamic linker is used by the OS. R has no similar mechanism. | using the SONAME, and complaining on mismatch. Can there be | something similar in R/Rcpp ? Something that'd give a proper | error message upon package loading, instead of crashes | and frustrated end-users ? I don't know but I fear not. Part of me thinks that if it was easy and generally doable, someone somewhere in Perl, Python, Ruby, ... land would have done so. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
