В Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:00:19 -0600, Adam Fedor написа: > We had a long discussion about this before
Yes, I remember it. > that ended in the request that stable releases have no ABI or API > changes (even additions), so that a developer and user could count > on the same set of functionality in a release. This is probably worth having in the (very) distant future, but has little to do with the question at hand. My objection was that it's absolutely useless to bump the soname 1.14 -> 1.15 -> 1.16 (just an example) when there are only compatible bugfixes and API additions. How you version the releases and what is considered "stable" and "unstable" is completely orthogonal to the library versioning. In fact, Glib/GTK+ has a similar release version numbering and development routine as GNUstep. Odd versions are unstable, even versions are stable, but they never break the ABI because they promised so. It shouldn't be very hard if GNUstep libraries break the ABI only when the developers actually do it, and not always with every major release. Notice the difference from the "super-stability" that Helge was talking about in that old thread. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
