On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 09:59 +1030, Alan Modra wrote: > The binutils and gdb projects do not even pretend to a stable ABI or > API for libbfd and libopcodes. Particularly not ABI, that gets broken > on almost every week. perf and other projects that want to use libbfd > or libopcodes are of course welcome to do so, but they then need to > deal with the changing API. Complaints that Nick, Alan, or H.J. Lu > have broken perf or similar *will be ignored*, except possibly to tell > you that you may as well stop complaining. > > I've said before that the most obvious way to deal with the unstable > API is to import a snapshot of the libbfd and libopcodes code into > those projects and merge from upstream as new upstream support becomes > desirable. That's not hard to do!
Maybe they could also relicense perf to be GPLv3 compatible. :-)
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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