Dan Horák píše v Út 05. 03. 2013 v 18:57 +0100: > Josh Stone píše v Út 05. 03. 2013 v 09:44 -0800: > > On 03/05/2013 07:59 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 14:07 -0800, Josh Stone wrote: > > > > > >> So given that this library's use is pretty well contained, might it be > > >> OK to go ahead and update in F18? > > > > > > Yeah, that's fine. > > > > > > In the future, consider following the glibc pattern of fixing the soname > > > for all but truly-world-breaking changes, and using symbol versions to > > > annotate API additions. That way a package that uses an API introduced > > > in dyninst 8.2 will get an rpm Requires for foo.so(dyninst-8.2)(64bit), > > > which will make yum automatically search for a sufficiently new dyninst > > > package without breaking the soname. > > > > Is that feasible for C++ APIs? I mean, it might be possible if you're > > *really* careful about hiding class changes, but this project is not > > structured that way. > > it is, see eg. the wxWidgets library, they are really good in that and as example http://svn.wxwidgets.org/viewvc/wx/wxWidgets/branches/WX_2_8_BRANCH/version-script.in?view=markup Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
