Re: SONAMEs

[Eric Heintzmann]

On 2004-06-20 09:00:36 +0200 Chad Hardin <cehardin@mac.com> wrote:

> How about we make it standard coding practice to put a  
> NSMutableDictionary 
> ivar into every single class for every major  release.  Then, if more 
> ivars 
> are needed during minor release upgrades,  they can be held in the 
> Dictionary 
> ivar.  When the next major release  rolls around, what was held in 
> the 
> Dictionary can be made into a real  independent ivar, and the cycle 
> continues.
>
> This extra ivar can be uniformly called extra_ivars or something like 
>  that. 
> For most classes, it would never be used, but for those few  times 
> that a new 
> ivar is needed, it would not hurt anyone.

I don't have a problem with binary incompatibilities, I trust in the 
GNUstep Team.
But I have a problem if there are binary incompabilities and the 
soname isn't changing like now.

Since soname could be easily upgraded, and would really make 
transition to the new lib easier for users of debian (and I think,user 
of all other distros),  I think it should be changed now (and for 
every new binary incompatibility).


> No, this is not my own original idea, but I do think it is  a decent  
> one. 
> Of course, implementing it would mean *totally*  breaking binary 
> compatibility, but at least it would only happen once.
>
> Comments?  Am I overlooking something?
>
> Chad
>
>
> On Jun 19, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Eric Heintzmann wrote: