[Digikam-devel] Fwd: Trans.: [exiv2] Exiv2 release 0.13

[Angelo Naselli]

> So it takes time pickup a new libray interface and integrate it
> into a distribution.   And may therefore delay the inclusion of
> an application, when a distro is in the conservative period
> before an release.
+1

> Summary: the more often you can delay or workaround an back-
> wardcompatibilty breaking change, the faster, we the distro-
> packager, can deliver your great peace of software to our
> users.
+1

> > For an example of a subtle API change see 
> > http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/exiv2/message/523
> 
> After a quick look, I'm sure I miss something ;)
> About the the parsing of a string by digikam, the breakage due to
> this subtle change, was either digikam fault (using API the wrong way),
> or a limitatin in the library interface (providing a onely human
> readable string, instead of an alternative with computer readable
> values ;)   And e.g. adding methods that return directly usable
> values without parsing would not break the ABI backward compatibility.
+1
> Last but not least: thx again for you exiv2 work!!!
and +1

Maybe because I'm a distro packager as well??? ;)

Angelo
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