Re: ABI Compatibility (was Re: Installation woes for the average user...)

[Yavor Doganov]

В Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:10:42 -0500, Gregory Casamento написа:
> As far as the ABI is concerned that is certainly an issue.

The real issue is the gratuitous/frivolous SONAME bump when there are 
only API additions.  Users and distributors are forced to recompile 
everything unnecessarily and this can be painful (especially for the 
latter).

Certainly, detecting whether a particular change leads to an ABI break is 
not always easy, and not bumping the SONAME when there are incompatible 
changes does far more harm.