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Subject: Re: What to do after 2.2?
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero () redhat ! de>
Date: 2001-07-13 15:04:06
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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
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