ABI report for Vermillion Devel 63

Laszlo (Laca) Peter laca at sun.com
Wed Apr 11 16:08:56 PDT 2007


> > 
> > Breaking the ABI of an Evolving lib _is_ a big deal.
> > Fortunately this is only in vermillion-devel, but if it was,
> > we would have to keep the ABI compatible.
> 
> I'm not sure gnome-vfs is one of those libraries that we really care about
> though - it's not in the GTK+ and circle of friends dependencies, so there's
> probably less pressure on that point.

Actually, gnome-vfs is Contracted Volatile, which translates to
External in the old taxonomy, not Evolving, so we're fine.
Of course it would still be good to keep breakages to a minimum.

> However, it would be ideal if we could at least keep the same ABI as the
> upstream community.

Yes, that would be great.

Laca




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