On miércoles, 7 de diciembre de 2016 08:02:20 ART Thiago Macieira wrote: [snip] > But the extra versioning is a further safety check: if something was missed > in the update, like for example some code compiled by the user (regardless > of use of package management), it will necessarily stop working.
I not sure of the usefullnes in this case. If I remember correctly the linker will try first to locate the symbol with the right version and if it fails the first symbol that matches no matter it's version. I remember that when the symbols' version was added to Qt we did not have to rebuild anything: things just worked out without issues. And we where dealing with public symbols here. I never the less give it a try and compiled Qt 5.7.1 (latest snapshot) with the patch that changes QPA symbols' version to private ones. I've got segfaults while running Plasma, but no linking problems that I could see. Granted, I don't know why the crashes happened but I didn't directly see any effect of changing QPA's symbols's versions, so I don't know if code compiled by the user will necesarily stop working. Am I missing something here? -- If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house. Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac" Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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