On 3/25/23, 6:38 PM, "Francesco Pretto" <cez...@gmail.com> wrote:
- The API is not yet stable: I plan for further refinements before
1.0, see the TODO. Reviewing/modernizing a big object oriented library
is a long process, especially if the language is C++;
- Because of previous points I take no stance in recommending its
packaging in Linux distributions (at least for now) to still give
tools a chance. I would be happy to know PoDoFo 0.10 is packaged in
other package managers (such as vcpkg, Conan, brew) but I also do not
encourage the upgrade right now if they release tools as well and they
can't decouple them, or they can't supply older PoDoFo versions as
well;
I'm a downstream packager for fink on OS X. Could you clarify the nature of the
API instability? Previously, each new release would have a different
install_name (the Mac analog to linux SONAME) matching the release version. So
we would roll a new package for each release, following the lead of Debian and
others. That meant it was no problem if the interfaces changed in any way in
each new version, because it each would become a new package that contained a
unique runtime library filename and a clearly versioned package of its headers.
Dependant packages could simply pick which one they wanted and know that it
would work from then on.
The alternative, that install_name would remain constant even if interfaces
change in backward-incompatible ways, would be a different approach that would
indeed cause confusion for packagers. I see that podofo-0.10.0 builds me
install_name "libpodofo.1.dylib". Future versions could add new interfaces and
symbols, but a package that built once would continue to work from then on
against those files that have backward-compatible changes. My concern is
whether future versions that supply libpodofo.1.dylib would ever change in a
way that would break older code that used to work with it. The usual library
approach is that backward-incompatible interface changes would jump to .2. and
successive.
But regardless, consider this a data-point for successful build of the 0.10.0
release on OS X 10.13!
dan
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