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Big success - so congrats!

Posted Oct 4, 2013 10:30 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Big success - so congrats! by wahern
Parent article: 30 years of GNU

If you're writing FOSS and worried about ABIs, you're doing it wrong.

Not if you're writing libraries. If you ship a new version of a library with significant use under the same soname and all its consumers break, people will be unhappy, even if they could 'just' recompile them all.

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