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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Release Criteria
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-11-15 5:32:25
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On November 14, 2002 16:02, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> On Thursday 14 November 2002 03:46 pm, Harri Porten wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> > > > - Binary compatibility is preserved
> > >
> > > Do we have an automated way of testing this?  It would be great to have
> > > a make bctest to run when we are doing changes here local.
> >
> > Unless someone else has something ready: I have an idea and was going to
> > come up with a proof-of-concept implementation anyway. Might require some
> > am_edit or unsermake support to be practical.
>
> i have been olaying arround with nm and ldd but so far have nothing
> reliable. The big problem is we need to have a binary linked against an
> older kdelibs, and for the sake of portabilty i dont know how to do this?

  We could just record the symbols and other information in a big data file 
after each release and use that for comparison, right?

-- 

George Staikos

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