Policy on binary compatibility in kdesupport?

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Wed Aug 13 14:01:24 BST 2008


On 13.08.08 14:16:07, Sebastian TrĂ¼g wrote:
> The problem is simple: I want to introduce transactions into Soprano. That 
> will break BC since it introduces new virtual methods.
> Now normally I would go about this by releasing Soprano 3 and increasing the 
> lib version.
> However, I don't know what the policy is here. Is this allowed at all? Or does 
> kdesupport need to stay binary compatible until KDE 5?

AFAIK kdesupport is just a convenience place to host libraries we depend
on. Which means you can do whatever you want as long as you play by the
rules (i.e. SOVERSION increase on BC changes). 

Andreas

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