Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:57:38PM +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > >> 2) icheck was intended for the same purposes as an >> ABI-compliance-checker, but icheck has many drawbacks: >> > > [...] > > >> c) icheck contains 467 files and 61 sub-folders; >> ABI-c

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:57:38PM +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > 2) icheck was intended for the same purposes as an > ABI-compliance-checker, but icheck has many drawbacks: [...] > c) icheck contains 467 files and 61 sub-folders; > ABI-compliance-checker is a single file. I am concerne

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:38:41 +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > >> Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System >> Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free >> lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary c

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > How does this compare with projects like icheck or abicheck? icheck is fairly unmaintained, since upstream is a former Debian developer. No idea about abicheck, perhaps you could compare them Andrey? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/P

Re: Bug#540247: ITP: abi-compliance-checker -- tool for checking binary compatibility of shared libraries (was: Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker)

2009-08-06 Thread George Danchev
--cut-- > > The wiki-page with the latest release of binary compatibility checker > > is http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker > > This looks like an extremely useful piece of software (in the past > I've thought "I wish there were a tool to do this" :)). I'll pack

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:38:41 +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System > Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free > lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of > shared C/C++ lib

Bug#540247: ITP: abi-compliance-checker -- tool for checking binary compatibility of shared libraries (was: Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker)

2009-08-06 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: abi-compliance-checker Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Andrey Ponomarenko * URL : http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker * Lice

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
[CCing you since I presume you are not subscribed to debian-devel] [CCing the Debian release team since they may be interested] On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: >    Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System > Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences an

backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface signatures and data type definitions