Re: Best practices for handling API (not ABI) breaks?

2008-03-10 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Daniel, Daniel Burrows wrote: I'm the maintainer of libsigc++-2.0, a typesafe callback library for C++. Upstream has just released a new version, 2.2, which preserves the version 2.0 ABI but is not source-compatible: programs that compiled against the 2.0 series will break with this new

Best practices for handling API (not ABI) breaks?

2008-03-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
Hi, I'm the maintainer of libsigc++-2.0, a typesafe callback library for C++. Upstream has just released a new version, 2.2, which preserves the version 2.0 ABI but is not source-compatible: programs that compiled against the 2.0 series will break with this new release. There are 114