On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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.
You still need an SONAME burp if some apps linked against the newer library (say, those using new features) would fail with the older one. i.e. unless a change is both forward and backwards compatible, you can't get away without some sort of burp. (Or am I confused?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
