Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52@gmail.com> Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name : abi-compliance-checker Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Andrey Ponomarenko * URL : http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/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 signatures and data type definitions in two library versions (headers and shared objects) and searches ABI changes that may lead to incompatibility. Breakage of the compatibility may result in crashing or incorrect behavior of applications built with an old version of a library when it is running with a new one. ABI-compliance-checker was intended for library developers that are interested in ensuring backward binary compatibility. Also ABI-compliance-checker may be used for checking forward binary compatibility and compliance checking of the same library versions on different Linux distributions. Hi Andrey, On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:38:41PM +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++ 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 lead to incompatibility. > We have released 1.1 version of this tool and we'd like you to consider > its 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 > 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 it for Debian. Cheers, Ryan -- _________________________ Ryan Niebur ryanryan52@gmail.com
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