Re: gnustep release numbers

[Helge Hess]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 01:27, Jeremy Bettis wrote:
> I thought that to provide a "stable" ABI, you just can't do these  
> things:
...
> But these things should not cause instabilitity:
>
> Adding a class
> Adding a method

Thats wrong. A soname fixes one API, it can be neither extended nor  
reduced (nor changed in the behaviour). I already gave the example of  
adding a class.

You are mixing up ABIs (or more exactly sonames) with backward  
compatible APIs :-) APIs ensure source code compatibility while ABIs  
ensure binary compatibility. (you can replace the library and an  
arbitary program linked against the specific soname still works)

GNUstep has very good API compatibility but this doesn't help at all  
with binary packages.

Greets,
  Helge
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