KDE ABI stability?

[Thiago Macieira]

Kevin Krammer wrote:
>> This means a program that compiled and ran with KDE 3.0.0 must still
>> compile and run with 3.5.0 (including running without re-compiling).
>
>Unfortunately this seems only be true for kdelibs. I remember a thread
> on debian-qt-kde (Debian KDE packagers list) about one of the other
> modules breaking BC in a library shared with another module.

All *public* libraries are supposed to maintain BC. Non-public ones and 
non-library code doesn't have to maintain.

I am not sure whether libcvsservice was supposed to be public or not, but 
it does have public headers. This looks like a bug from the cervisia 
developers.
-- 
  Thiago Macieira  -  thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
    PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint:
    E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C  966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358

4. And æfter se scieppend ingelogode, he wrát "cenn", ac eala! se 
rihtendgesamnung andswarode "cenn: ne wát hú cennan 'eall'. Ástynt."
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-core-devel/attachments/20051204/9a763035/attachment.sig>