[sword-devel] Xiphos 4.0.3

[Matěj Cepl]

On 2015-08-17, 21:41 GMT, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> On 08/17/2015 04:44 PM, Matěj Cepl wrote:
>> I still don’t know what's the advantage of lying about the API version.
> I suppose it's a small example of a much larger problem.  If GTK3 is
> updated from 3.14.15 to 3.14.16, we shouldn't induce a rebuild of all
> GTK3 applications.  Current /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0.1400.15 shows
> SONAME of "libgtk-3.so.0" which needn't change any application's ability
> to link dynamically.

Sure, correct SONAME are great and sacred mystery to which 
I don’t understand much (although I am not C/C++ programmer, so 
I am not ashamed of it).  However, what I see in your example is 
that you have some need of learning as well ... ABI version is 
major.minor and with the same ABI version the ABI should be 
stable. So, in your case with change from 3.14.15 and 3.14.16 
there should be the same ABI and no need to rebuild. If you 
change ABI on every third digit release, then there is something 
very wrong with biblesync, I am afraid. And that should be done 
by your CMake stuff, no need for packagers to do some weird 
magic about ABI versions.

However, I really don’t understand the stuff that much so I may 
be very wrong.

Blessings,

Matěj

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