Re: [DebianGIS] Re: Summary about libgdal issue for ftp-masters, please contribute and do not break the thread
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:13:54PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
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> [Francesco Paolo Lovergine]
> > AFAIK, we are going to release a libgdal1.3.1 package (maybe
> > libgdal1.3 could be more appropriate ?)
> > to superseed the current sid libgdal due to changes in C++ API. As
> > stated by upstream, C++ interface is far from being stabilized and
> > currently break things at every new release. The C API is stable, so
> > the SONAME do not change. Unfortunately a few packages depends on
> > the C++ interfaces, so we need to keep in sync things at source
> > level among them, which is suboptimal, but better than having
> > programs faulting at every new release of the libgdal program.
>
> Do we know which packages uses the C++ interface? Would it be
> possible to move the C API wrappers into a separate library, and keep
> that ABI stable while the ABI and SONAME for the C++ library changes
> for every upload?
>
> Splitting the C and C++ library into separate packages would make it
> easier to track which packages need a rebuild every time gdal changes
> too.
That would be nice, but AFAIK all functions stay in the same solib
currently, we need an heavy patching of the upstream sources for that.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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