Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6
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?
- Dan
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