On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, George Staikos wrote:

>    Personally I'll be pretty pissed off if I have to recompile all my apps
> barely a year after 2.0 came out.  Yeah the new features are nice and all,
> but breaking applications is very unprofessional.

But it can't be avoided.
If we switch to 3.0 now, 3.x will at least have a very long lifetime.

I think the problem with existing applications gets bigger, not smaller -
if we break the ABI now, we'll break maybe 100 binary applications. If we
break the ABI 4 months from now, we'll break 300.

Besides, the imminent switch to 3.x on most Linux distributions and
probably most other OSes (*BSD) will break the ABI anyway for most of us -
there's no point in breaking it twice (2.2/gcc 2.x, 2.3/gcc 3.x, 3.x).
I'd rather go (2.2/gcc 2.x -> 3.0/gcc 3.x).

LLaP
bero