On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 06:44:54PM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote: > On Fri, 2024-08-09 at 14:14 -0400, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > > > > Despite some small misgivings about renaming symbols (which quite > > possibly aren't being used by anyone) in our user-facing libraries, > > libpmathpersist and libmpathcmd, for the set: > > As the functions are only renamed, we could use (weak) aliases here to > still provide the old function names if some caller requires them. > Would you prefer that? > > We'd still be violating the glibc standards somewhat, but the > probability for an actual symbol name clash is very low, so I guess it > would be acceptable to do this in the name of backward compatibility. While it's not that big of a deal, I do think we should prioritize backwards compatibility over this level of standards compliance. -Ben > > Martin
