On Thursday 15 March 2012 03:19:07 Ludwig Nussel wrote: > Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> i'm not looking for downstream workarounds here but rather the right > >> answer. is openssl-1.0.1 expected to be ABI compatible with > >> openssl-1.0.0 ? > > > > Yes. In brief the versioning scheme introduced with 1.0.0 is: > > > > Changes to last letter: security and bugfix only, no new features. > > E.g. 1.0.0->1.0.0a > > Changes to last number: new ABI compatible features. > > E.g. 1.0.0->1.0.1 > > Changes to middle number: major release, ABI compatibility not > > guaranteed. E.g. 1.0.0->1.1.0 > > btw, are there any plans to use symbol versioning on systems that > support it?
as long as it's backwards compatible in the minor versions, symbol versioning isn't necessary. if you want to do across 1.x, then you'd prob need symbol versioning, but getting past minor version incompatibles is a huge improvement. -mike
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