RFC: adding a temporary, non-BC gauranteed, 'private' library .. where?

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Thu Apr 23 19:56:05 BST 2009


Maksim Orlovich wrote:
>>> Please don't put anything in kdelibs that doesn't have a stable ABI.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>>> And libraries with public headers should remember to change their
>>> SONAME on BIC changes.
>>
>> Ok, quite reasonable, but what is the problem if one of the libraries
>> from kdelibs does this?
>
>If this were done, updating kdelibs may result in applications that stop
>working.

Or stop compiling.

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