On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:35:42AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Would upstream accept it? > We should push them hard to. [...] > > What would it involve? > Breaking the ABI for libpng3. Again. However, this would be the last time > such ABI changes force a full recompile of the apps AND libraries using > libpng. Eh? I thought the whole idea of versioning was that it /didn't/ force a full recompile of all the apps. If it does, then you do a so-name change, and end up with libpng3v or similar. Note that we've released libpng3 with the current soname and ABI, we don't get to randomly break that at whim. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''
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