On Nov 6, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Changing the library name is an incompatible change for all programs
and
libraries that are linked against it; i.e., it requires relinking.
Agreed.
Hmm, OpenMPI seems not to use versioning for its shared libraries.
That was on the to-do list for this release, but it just didn't
happen. :-\
Do you just declare each release API+ABI-incompatible to each other
release?
MPI API is compatible across releases; it hasn't changed. We have
never [yet] claimed ABI compatible across releases -- we may still do
this someday.
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
