On Di, 2011-04-19 at 16:03 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 09:27 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > There's a couple other simple things I forgot to mention yesterday.
> >
> > * We should add some padding to all the public class structs so we can
> > add new class methods in the future without breaking ABI. Something
> > like this:
> >
> > struct _ECalClientClass {
> >
> > ... methods and stuff ...
> >
> > gpointer reserved[16];
> > };
>
> I never understood a need for this, neither used it when changing
> structs. There was done a soname version bump when changing public
> "class" structures, which, from my point of view, always involves also
> API changes, and freezes on these both are tight together.
Are you saying that a soname version bump can and should be done in a
backwards-incompatible way (= code compiled against older version no
longer works with new lib)? That's a major pain for people trying to
support multiple distros. Please avoid it whenever possible.
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Bye, Patrick Ohly
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