On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:05 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > 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. >
No, APR is a library, it has no ownership over stderr/stdout.
