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Re: [Help-gsl] ABI changes analysis
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Patrick Alken |
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Re: [Help-gsl] ABI changes analysis |
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Sat, 6 Aug 2016 12:23:30 -0600 |
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Yes going to v2.0 I did change a few APIs, in the interests of keep the
library clean and fixing some mistakes which were made previously.
Apologies to all who have had headaches over this.
Patrick
On 08/06/2016 10:13 AM, Liam Healy wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Ponomarenko Andrey <
> address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working on a new project for backward compatibility analysis of the
>> Linux ABIs. The report for GSL library has been recently added to the
>> project: http://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/gsl/
>>
>> The report is generated by https://github.com/lvc/abi-tracker
>>
>> Hope this will help users, maintainers and developers of the library to
>> maintain backward compatibility and navigate over the history of API/ABI
>> changes.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
> As the creator and maintainer of GSLL, a Common Lisp interface to GSL, I
> find this very helpful. I am currently trying to map the API changes made
> in the transition to GSL 2.x. It is a bit of work to dig down to find the
> information I need, but all the details seem to be present. I note that the
> GSL changelog is not a complete description of everything that's changed,
> not even major API changes, and this tool fills that gap.
>
> Thank you for the service.
> Liam