Keeping binary compatibility

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 03.10.10 13:23:17, George Kiagiadakis wrote:
> However, this might be acceptable if BIC changes are documented for
> each release, so that we know when different module versions can be
> mixed and when they cannot. This will at least reduce the pain when
> users need to mix different versions that *can* be used together. Of
> course, the best way to achieve this would be to bump (or not bump, if
> there is no BC break) sonames, which is immediately visible to the
> packagers. So, I think we are back to the original proposal :)

I think in most cases you'll simply get a new soname with each release
of the KDE modules because most devs don't (want to/can) care about
wether a particular change they're doing is bc or not. So they end up
increasing soname shortly after trunk is unfrozen and thats not going to
benefit you either (except that it would document that any two minor
releases are incompatible).

Andreas

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