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

[Adam Fedor]

On Mar 12, 2009, at 2:19 AM, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> I think you misunderstood.  As a GNUstep user and distro maintainer of
> GNUstep packages, I don't mind if the GNUstep developers break the ABI
> as much as they want (of course, the less the better).  But only bump
> the soname of a library when there is breakage.  The current release
> policy just doesn't make any sense (and never had for me personally).

We had a long discussion about this before that ended in the request  
that stable releases have no ABI or API changes (even additions), so  
that a developer and user could count on the same set of functionality  
in a release. It's a nice goal, but GNUstep really isn't in a place  
where it is stable enough for this.

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