Bug#1060319: ITP: sdl2-compat -- SDL 2 binary compatibility library wrapping SDL 3

2024-01-09 Thread Simon McVittie
://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl2-compat/issues * URL : https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl2-compat * License : mainly Zlib, with various other permissive licenses Programming Lang: C Description : SDL 2 binary compatibility library wrapping SDL 3 sdl2-compat provides a binary

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: How does this compare with projects like icheck or abicheck? icheck is fairly unmaintained, since upstream is a former Debian developer. No idea about abicheck, perhaps you could compare them Andrey? -- bye, pabs

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
usefulness for your project. The wiki-page with the latest release of binary compatibility checker is http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker How does this compare with projects like icheck or abicheck? regards, guillem 1) ABIcheck was intended

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:57:38PM +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: 2) icheck was intended for the same purposes as an ABI-compliance-checker, but icheck has many drawbacks: [...] c) icheck contains 467 files and 61 sub-folders; ABI-compliance-checker is a single file. I am concerned

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
icheck may be used for checking binary compatibility of C libraries, but it has several drawbacks.

backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface signatures and data type definitions

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface signatures and data type definitions in two library versions (headers and shared objects) and searches ABI changes that may

Bug#540247: ITP: abi-compliance-checker -- tool for checking binary compatibility of shared libraries (was: Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker)

2009-08-06 Thread Ryan Niebur
/ABI_compliance_checker * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : tool for checking binary compatibility of shared libraries ABI-compliance-checker is a lightweight tool for checking backward binary compatibility of shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:38:41 +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of shared C/C

Re: Bug#540247: ITP: abi-compliance-checker -- tool for checking binary compatibility of shared libraries (was: Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker)

2009-08-06 Thread George Danchev
--cut-- The wiki-page with the latest release of binary compatibility checker is http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker This looks like an extremely useful piece of software (in the past I've thought I wish there were a tool to do this :)). I'll package

Re: On binary compatibility

2006-02-26 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: The solution would be to convince Ubuntu to branch from stable instead of sid. The problem is that this creates a lot of work for Ubuntu because they have to backport all of the desired bleeding-edge stuff. However, Debian

Re: On binary compatibility

2006-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 23 février 2006 à 19:56 -0500, Michael Gilbert a écrit : One final open-ended question is: which consumes more resources? Duplicate packaging or backporting? No, the question is how is the Ubuntu project willing to spend its resources. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\

Re: On binary compatibility

2006-02-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Michael Gilbert wrote: First of all, I think it is useful to analyze Ubuntu's motivation -- releasing well-integrated bleeding-edge software. The easiest way to accomplish this goal is by branching from sid. This means that Ubuntu libraries differ from the stable Debian

Re: On binary compatibility

2006-02-24 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Michael Gilbert wrote: I've read a lot about the binary incompatibility concern between Debian and Ubuntu. It is a design decision of ubuntu to ensure source code compatibility only. Binary compatibility to debian/stable is not a release goal. I think that Ubuntu's motivation to provide

On binary compatibility

2006-02-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
making it possible to maintain binary compatibility. The solution would be to convince Ubuntu to branch from stable instead of sid. The problem is that this creates a lot of work for Ubuntu because they have to backport all of the desired bleeding-edge stuff. However, Debian developers could

Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- As the official version of perl 5.004 is finally out (I must admit I haven't installed the debian package yet, but I run webservers with lots of perl CGI and can't afford to break them), I have a few questions, comments, and thoughts. 1. In building my own

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Well, with 5.004, CGI-modules is obsolete, and so the misnaming of the CGI modules package is a solved issue ;-). (Unless. of course, there is a hew-and-cry about removing the package, I'd suggest removing CGI-modules from hamm). As for the description issue, even the one

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On 19 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Well, with 5.004, CGI-modules is obsolete, and so the misnaming of the CGI modules package is a solved issue ;-). (Unless. of course, there is a hew-and-cry about removing the package, I'd suggest removing CGI-modules from hamm). No real

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My main concern is that they neither bunch up on the dpkg select screen, nor is it easy to search for perl modules in dselect (I'd like to be able to find all the perl modules by searching on perl). BTW, I maintain alias and www-search (and libwww-perl

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Scott Ellis, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: As the official version of perl 5.004 is finally out (I must admit I haven't installed the debian package yet, but I run webservers with lots of perl CGI and can't afford to break them), I have a few

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Mark Eichin
this since he asked for it a while back. The upgrade to libc6 for perl can't happen until there is a libgdbm compatible with it though since I refuse to break everyone's dbm interfaces. I'll also be able to release Great - as soon as I get some consensus on package naming, I'll try to put