> Bumping the MMN works for things like Apache, but not for flood, > subversion, or any of the countless other APR-based apps that have > sprung up lately. > > I'll agree that changing the typename doesn't solve the problem of > mismatched binary compatibility, but it does make it obvious to the app > author where the interface has changed. The renaming simply gives us > compile-time type-checking. > > Maybe APR needs to have its own magic number. Is there a way to > make a version check mandatory, or are we stuck with a voluntary check?
Versioning has been on the todo list for a long time now. Perhaps the apr_time_t change is a good enough reason to add it ASAP. Then, we can do the versioning and the apr_time_t change at the same time, and this problem is solved completely. Ryan
