On 06/10/2012 17:01, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>> > It prevents the caller from accessing all the descriptors when he's
>> > using a newer library than the one he compiled against.
> if (compile_ver > runtime_ver) error(); on app init. Likely, you want
> to do that anyway.
> 

Actually Anton is referring to the opposite case (runtime > compile),
which is pretty common for all distributions.

If you were to do that, distributions would likely feel like kicking
libav out for good. Speaking with my distro hat on.

So I'm in favour of Anton's choice, ABI stability _is_ necessary and
very welcome.

-- 
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
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