Binary compatiblity for liboxygenstyle.so

[Hugo Pereira Da Costa]

On 02/24/2012 12:01 PM, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Alle venerdì 24 febbraio 2012, Hugo Pereira Da Costa ha scritto:
>> On 02/24/2012 11:43 AM, Pino Toscano wrote:
>>> Alle venerdì 24 febbraio 2012, Hugo Pereira Da Costa ha scritto:
>>>> no there is no guarantee for liboxygenstyle.so.4, and I don't plan
>>>> to guarantee it.
>>>> It is all internal to kde-workspace, and has no public api.
>>> Then please correctly bump its SONAME, instead of using the same
>>> SONAME (liboxygenstyle.so.4) for API-/ABI- incompatible new
>>> versions of it.
>> Hi Pino,
>>
>> I think the real issue here is:
>>
>> despite the fact that you have a local kde build, the pluggins that
>> gets loaded by Qt when running a KDE or Qt application are not the
>> ones you compiled. An old one is used instead, that is inconsistent
>> with the libraries it links to.
>> The new, compiled one, should get loaded.
>> No change of so name will fix that.
>> Correct ?
> No, because the old plugin would link to the liboxygenstyle with the old
> SONAME, which would not get overwritten/overridden by a newer version
> coming from the local KDE build.
> Except for the unversioned .so symlink, two versions of the same library
> with different SONAME (properly compliled) are co-installable.
>
Hi Pino,

I understand that. The point I was trying to make, is that you would 
still get the "old" pluggin, admittingly without crashing, but which 
would nonetheless be not correct.