Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: How does this compare with projects like icheck or abicheck? icheck is fairly unmaintained, since upstream is a former Debian developer. No idea about abicheck, perhaps you could compare them Andrey? -- bye, pabs

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Guillem Jover wrote: Hi! On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:38:41 +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:57:38PM +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: 2) icheck was intended for the same purposes as an ABI-compliance-checker, but icheck has many drawbacks: [...] c) icheck contains 467 files and 61 sub-folders; ABI-compliance-checker is a single file. I am concerned

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:57:38PM +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: 2) icheck was intended for the same purposes as an ABI-compliance-checker, but icheck has many drawbacks: [...] c) icheck contains 467 files and 61 sub-folders;

backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface signatures and data type definitions

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
[CCing you since I presume you are not subscribed to debian-devel] [CCing the Debian release team since they may be interested] On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Andrey Ponomarenkosusa...@ispras.ru wrote:    Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System Programing of Russian

Bug#540247: ITP: abi-compliance-checker -- tool for checking binary compatibility of shared libraries (was: Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker)

2009-08-06 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: abi-compliance-checker Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Andrey Ponomarenko * URL :

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:38:41 +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of shared C/C++

Re: Bug#540247: ITP: abi-compliance-checker -- tool for checking binary compatibility of shared libraries (was: Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker)

2009-08-06 Thread George Danchev
--cut-- The wiki-page with the latest release of binary compatibility checker is http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker This looks like an extremely useful piece of software (in the past I've thought I wish there were a tool to do this :)). I'll package it