On 03/12/2010 06:14 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > How is it disruptive? Surely not because I have to rebuild the stuff I am > developing myself and have to compile very often anyway > Just because you are in a position to rebuild stuff when necessary, does not mean that is convenient for all consumers of a library to do so and rebuilding and pushing out updates for software outside the repository is often problematic. Look at real life environments outside the developer boxes that you live in. If you don't even agree with a basic principle that breaking ABI should be avoided in updates, we don't really have much left to discuss. Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel