I suggest you read Ulrich Drepper's article on what symbol versioning
addresses. FreeType is not known
for frequently changing its ABI or API (I don't think I've ever recalled
the former happening), so some of
these things are not relevant to the FreeType project. Still, I think it
would be a goo
If none of us know what problem this is fixing, maybe you shouldn't make
any changes.
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> >>> I would consider, maybe, providing the version mapfile in the
> >>> builds/unix/ folder, with regular upgrades as a part of the
> >>> release cycle
>>> I would consider, maybe, providing the version mapfile in the
>>> builds/unix/ folder, with regular upgrades as a part of the
>>> release cycle.
>>
>> Hmm. Maybe it makes more sense to simply call the script during
>> `make dist', additionally having a Makefile rule to (re)generate
>> it.
>
Alexei A Podtelezhnikov, PhD
>> I would consider, maybe, providing the version mapfile in the
>> builds/unix/ folder, with regular upgrades as a part of the release
>> cycle.
>
> Hmm. Maybe it makes more sense to simply call the script during `make
> dist', additionally having a Makefile rule
> I would possibly commit my bash script that extracts the versions
> from our git repository to src/tools/.
OK.
> I would consider, maybe, providing the version mapfile in the
> builds/unix/ folder, with regular upgrades as a part of the release
> cycle.
Hmm. Maybe it makes more sense to simp
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Thanks. So, if you like, please work on symbol versioning!
I would possibly commit my bash script that extracts the versions from
our git repository to src/tools/. I would consider, maybe, providing
the version mapfile in the builds/unix/
I am Siddharth Sharma, and I would really love to participate in GSoC with
FreeType. I had a look at the ideas at https://www.freetype.org/gsoc.html and
I would like to Convert the FreeType documentation to markdown.
For preparation, I have started off by learning make and writing some basic
scrip
>> OK. After a bit of searching the internet I now believe to know
>> what symbol versioning is good for. Is there any better-known
>> (GNU) library (besides libc) that does that by default?
>
> libc is confined by the standard. FreeType, on the other hand, can
> deprecate, rename, and adopt in
