Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: > On 20 May 2009, at 11:53, Yavor Doganov wrote: >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:24:39AM +0100, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: >>> However, I don't think there have been any recent releases which should >>> have changed the so number for any of the libraries. >> >> I've made an experiment some time ago by altering the symlinks without >> recompiling anything. Every GNUstep app in Debian worked out of the box >> (of course that's not a 100% proof that the new Base/GUI were ABI >> compatible). > > I agree ... not even close to proof. > > Most ABI changes are minor and won't effect most applications ... but we > still need to change the soname because we don't know whether there are > apps out there which will break.
I know that there have been incompatible changes to the gui library, I am very sure about that as I made them. You are right, though. Most applications wouldn't have noticed and for base the change probably wasn't needed. Fred _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
