Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: tinyxml - A simple, small, C++ XML parser https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=407571 ------- Additional Comments From j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx 2007-12-02 16:08 EST ------- (In reply to comment #5) > > Upstream's intention is for this to be included with other sources, they > > do not even offer a Makefile to build a .a, so the chances of there ever > > coming an official .so are small. > > They may change their mind. > Yes they may, but I cannot and forsee and thus cannot anticipate every possible future development, and as things are today there is no indication they will ever add a buildsystem, let alone building a .so to their non existant buildsystem. > > Also most likely I'll change the soname to lib%{name}-%{version}.so with the > > first new upstream version, as I expect them to not care about ABI's and > > hapily break it each release (its really easy to cause ABI breakage with > > c++). But I'm using lib%{name}.so.0 for now in the hope that they will > > pleasantly surprise me. > > Using the lib%{name}-%{version}.so scheme would seem better to me > since hopefully upstream won't do that. > Yes, but if they do bugfix releases which do not break ABI this will cause unnecessary soname changes, so I will adopt this scheme in the future if they often break ABI, but I do not want to start out with this scheme. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review