Sleepycat and CollabNet Open Source Collaboration

Posted Feb 8, 2006 1:23 UTC (Wed) by ismail (subscriber, #11404)
Parent article: Sleepycat and CollabNet Open Source Collaboration

Sleepycat could use a stable api, or let me put it this way: don't f*cking break
api every minor release!

Sleepycat and CollabNet Open Source Collaboration

Posted Feb 8, 2006 1:38 UTC (Wed) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link] (2 responses)

Do they break API? I've been under the impression that the API is pretty darn stable. Even the ABI is stable, as I understand.

It's the database format that keeps breaking.

Sleepycat and CollabNet Open Source Collaboration

Posted Feb 8, 2006 13:54 UTC (Wed) by ismail (subscriber, #11404) [Link]

Yeah you got me ;)

Sleepycat and CollabNet Open Source Collaboration

Posted Feb 11, 2006 4:09 UTC (Sat) by zblaxell (subscriber, #26385) [Link]

It's more like every minor release has an *entirely new* ABI, complete with C preprocessor tricks to add the current version number to every symbol in the library. On a good day this means you can link multiple versions dynamically into your executable. On a bad day this means you absolutely cannot link against some random shared library version, only the specific version your application was compiled with.