libkonq and ABI stability

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Wed Feb 3 10:51:55 GMT 2010


Em Terça-feira 2. Fevereiro 2010, às 23.53.14, Andreas Pakulat escreveu:
> This one is easy. If the answer to a) is "we don't guarantee ABI compat
> for the KDE4 lifetime of libkonq", then increasing the SOVERSION is
> enough to warrant any ABI change. Apps in extragear and outside of
> svn.kde.org will simply use the old version until they switch to the new
> one. Distro's can install both version side-by-side (due to the
> different SOVERSION) without any trouble.

They have to build Konqueror twice (in fact, the whole kdebase-apps) in order 
to get both versions of libkonq.

The distros won't like it, but it's doable.

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