Re: Checking breakage of backward compatibility

[Helge Hess]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:45, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 4 Oct 2006, at 12:46, David Ayers wrote:
> > I'm almost indifferent on the subject.  But in practice I believe  
> > people
> > will unknowingly break binary compatibility and forget to bump the SO
> > name.  I think this is worse than forcing folks to recompile apps  
> > just
> > because the SO name bumped even though it didn't break binary
> > compatibility.... but like I said.  I wouldn't mind either way.
> That worries me too ... but I think we *must* try to be strict  
> about it.

I don't think it will work to enforce being strict about this on all  
developers (same for other non-hack stuff, like documentation). Its  
too much work and slows down development because you can't  
concentrate on the actual thing you want to do.

So in my model we would just bump the soname before/after each alpha  
release. Or possibly even keep it the same because it has little  
practical value for alpha anyways, no special preferences here.

Writing an automated testsuite (which would also need to be  
maintained) is IMHO a waste of efforts.

Greets,
  Helge
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