binary compatibility issues in kdelibs

[George Staikos]

On Tuesday 09 July 2002 12:39, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The recent mail on kde-devel reminded me of something I did with the
> 2_2 branch back then and wanted to do for 3.1. I took a more or less
> close look at 'cvs diff -rKDE_3_0_BRANCH -rHEAD **/*.h' in kdelibs,
> trying to find obvious breakages of binary compatibility that
> slipped through.

  I was talking with Waldo about this a few weeks ago actually.  Would it be 
reasonably straightforward to write a script which checks the libraries 
(binary) for symbols gone missing, new virtual functions, etc, between 
versions?  Then we could have regular, automated testing of BC.

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George Staikos