On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 11:34:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > vorlon@netexpress.net (Steve Langasek) wrote on 16.08.02 in <[🔎] 20020816161748.GC5568@netexpress.net>: > > From the heated discussion I've just had on IRC, I've gathered the > > following: > > * It is assumed that for the vast majority of C++ libs we ship, upstream > > has already transitioned to using the GCC 3.2 ABI, therefore our > > current packages are already binary-incompatible with the rest of the > > world. (ok) > Is this maybe "will already have ... when we release"? > Because otherwise, this is obvious nonsense. 3.2 was released *yesterday*. > I am pretty certain 99% of all upstreams haven't even realized yet that > 3.2 exists. *No* distribution currently ships with 3.2.[1] > Our current packages may or may not be incompatible, but not for this > reason. The claim was, that it's already too late to prevent binary incompatibility for some libraries. Whether this is because some distros have already shipped with a post-2.95.x ABI, or whether this is because it's too late to stop certain distros from shipping with the 3.2 ABI, I don't know. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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