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On Thursday 21 September 2006 07:59, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> Why have the explicit var? Because 0.9.7a through 0.9.7c may all be |
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> compatible, but 0.9.7d isn't. If you force an automatic algo that |
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> tries to (effectively) guess, you get a lot of rebuilds through a,b,c, |
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> end result being folks likely update less because it becomes a bigger |
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> pain in the ass. |
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if it isnt compatible then it shouldnt have the same SONAME, simple as |
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that ... that is after all the point of encoding the ABI version number into |
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the SONAME |
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forcing devs to maintain a manual var which is basically duplicating the |
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SONAME smells like maintenance nightmare |
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-mike |