Branko Čibej wrote: > William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >> Unfortunately the APR versioning rules do not tell the developer not to >> compile >> against or link to -dev, while this gives the user no indication of what they >> are doing to their APR installation. >> > > in that, you're correct. One would expect that developers do assume > that, but it needs to be documented. Why not add that bit to > versioning.html? It's quite a reasonable addition. > > For example, Subversion, which uses the exact same versioning rules as > APR, regularly ships rlease candidates marked "-rc" and no-one worries > about breaking the ABI to fix a bug between an RC and a release.
Should apr_initialize and friends be programmed to go 'bang' and drop out with a stderr emit, if compiled against a x.y.0-dev release and run against x.y.*[1-9]? Or, at least a stderr warning at initialization time? Seems like a simple, sensible fix.
