4.0 -> 4.1 binary compatibility

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Oct 24 23:57:55 BST 2007


Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Michael Pyne wrote:
>>> You've kind of answered your own question though.  If we break BC with
>>> 4.1 then we'll have to tell all people that just switched to 4.0 that
>>> they now have to port to 4.1.
>> Keep in mind that it was suggested 4.0 -> 4.1 to be BIC, but **NOT**
>> SIC. This is different, it means you have to re-link, not re-port.
> 
> Right.  So as soon as the user upgrades kdelibs to 4.1 they have to upgrade 
> the rest of KDE all at once to 4.1.

Um, no. Only if they want to uninstall 4.0, they would have to remove 
all things which depend on 4.0.

-- 
Matthew
"I always thought the KDE coders were simply very intelligent AI's... 
since I've never seen one in person before :)" -- Troy Unrau





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