On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 13:29 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:43 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > The only 'gotcha' I can think of by enabling it by default is that it > > might break ABI if old builds were 32bit off_t's (the new off_t's would > > be 64bit). > > > > Oh, and fwiw, looking ahead, it may even be worth changing the public > > API to take goffset's rather than off_t's if breaking API is acceptable > > since it will prevent future off_t size issues (since I believe that > > goffset is supposed to be an int64_t) > > Yeah, and this would be the opportune time to do that if we're going to > (early in the development cycle). Sounds like we should wait to enable > largefile support by default until we do the goffset replacement, and > then ship both changes at once with a soname bump.
If we are looking at this for Camel, we can go ahead and do the soname version along with the change. -Srini _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers