Chris Vine wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:54:44 +0100 > Eugen Dedu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Chris Vine wrote: >>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:30:06 +0000 >>> Chris Vine <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:31:58 +0100 >>>> yannick <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> You can test ekiga 3.2.6 for karmic with the patch here: >>>>> https://launchpad.net/~sevmek/+archive/ppa >>>>> >>>>> I do no used "ekiga-released" as I consider it as official and I >>>>> do not want to confuse users of it with some testing. >>>> I am not using karmic. Can you please post the patch here and I >>>> will recompile libopal. >>> And could you also state whether libopal as patched is binary >>> compatible: that is, do I also need to recompile ekiga? >> No, you do not need to. >> >> More generally: An application needs recompiling only when its >> interface changes. That's the reason why on every machine you can >> update the system, sometimes only a library is updated, but all the >> applications depending on it see the change. > > This is a C++ library where the most trivial changes can break binary > compatibility. Interface changes won't if they only comprise > additional non-virtual methods, otherwise they will. Having no > interface changes will still break compatibility if class membership > changes.
Right... > Anyway, on looking at the patch there are no interface modifications of > any kind, nor change of class membership, so we look to be OK. -- Eugen _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
