El Martes, 24 de Mayo de 2011, Corry Not Lazarowitz escribió: > I CAN HANDLE A RECOMPILE!!!
This only makes sense for your application, because you have the source. When the GCC guys were making changes in the ABI of C++ programs, it was a huge pain for Debian developers and users of the unstable branch (daily updated). I can not imagine how could life be for the users and managers of, say, the Ovi Store, if it weren't for the ABI compatibility promise. In general, given that I only (or almost only) use software for which I have the code, it would not be a huge problem. But I have the awful experience of running a Drupal site, and see that the next version broke yet again the API, so I can't upgrade because my modules and/or themes are not ported. And this is the point: even if you have the source, you probably use some software that is not as maintained as it seems. Only if the ABI/API breaks often you notice it. For proprietary software this is out of the question, I guess. -- Alex (a.k.a. suy) | GPG ID 0x0B8B0BC2 http://barnacity.net/ | http://disperso.net _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
