On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:40:14PM -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?
Or even better, make it totally ABI compatible, thus not even bump the SO version. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
