Re: [DebianGIS] Re: gdal
Seems to me Its best for now to so ahead and put Steve's package with my one change on alioth CVS into unstable. This will break other packages qgis and mapserver. But as of my tests last night neither package was installable any way so our interference will be minimal. At least in the long run we will have gdal 1.3.1 in unstable that we can use to build new mapserver and qgis packages.
Once we have this version in unstable I will begin looking into making a separate C++ library package that wont break qgis and mapserver with updates.
Has anyone researched how other distrobutions are dealing with this issue?
It might be interesting to know.
Jon
----- Original Message ----
From: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com>
To: Steve Halasz <debian@adkgis.org>
Cc: DebianGIS <pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Sent: Mon 19 Dec 2005 09:41:49 AM MST
Subject: Re: [DebianGIS] Re: gdal
On 12/19/05, Steve Halasz <debian@adkgis.org> wrote:
> Frank,
>
> What is considered version-to-version? Is it possible to have the
> expectation that the ABI will remain unchanged for 1.2.0 - 1.2.x and
> then change for 1.3.0, etc.? Perhaps if ABI changes are saved for
> "major" new release versions we can deal with rebuilding everything
> periodically.
Steve,
Even 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 are likey to be ABI incompatible at the
C++ level.
The problem with "saving up changes" is that I would then
have to be super careful about what sorts of changes are
done when. But the truth is that the development of GDAL
is funded by folks with immediate needs and I am not
interested in stalling them for many months or even years
just to retain some degree of ABI compatibility.
There are some things I could do to track it, but I have
made the deliberate decision not to pursue C++ ABI
compatability in order to simplify and streamline maintenance
of GDAL. This is not open for argument.
Frankly, in some ways I regret ever having exposed a
C++ API.
Best regards,
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