Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 13:40:14 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> > > > .... from the upstream POV, this would be another ABI transition.
> > >
> > > If there's no patch, there's nothing to discuss, then.
> >
> > Going forward, though, can you avoid potential issues like this
> > by maintaining better ABI compatibility between versions?
> > i.e. when you add a libncurses.so.7, can you make it so
> > that all apps that linked against libncurses.so.6 still continue
> > to work without recompilation?
>
> This doesn't make any sense.  If all apps linked against the previous
> version continued to work without recompilation, it wouldn't be an
> incompatible ABI change, and so wouldn't require a SONAME bump.

agree - I don't know how to guarantee that five years from now there'd
be no ABI change - the best I can do is maintain API compatibility.

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