Keeping binary compatibility

Adriaan de Groot groot at kde.org
Mon Oct 4 13:44:18 BST 2010


On Friday, October 01, 2010 03:32:41 pm Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  Hello,
> 
>  as you probably know, the theory is that KDE libraries keep backwards
> binary compatibility. As you might or might not know, that is the theory.
> 
>  I've found a tool called abi-compliance-checker
> (http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker) and
> it has a page with checks for various libraries including ours
> (http://linuxtesting.org/upstream-tracker/versions/kde-libs.html), which is
> not as green as it should be.

That looks both comprehensive and nicely detailed. Sounds like an excellent 
match for Krazy; maybe not so much as a part of krazy (since that checks 
source, not binaries) but as part of the EBN suite presenting information on 
the state of KDE's codebase.

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