automated testing

Posted Jun 17, 2012 13:22 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: automated testing by cmccabe
Parent article: Calling for a new openSUSE development model

You don't need versioned symbols. You just need to be sane about not breaking backward compatibility.

Yeah, but if you want real backward compatibility, which includes not breaking people merely because you did need to change an API, then you need versioned symbols.

But most people these days don't seem to give a damn about ABI or API compatibility. Wild change and close coupling is the order of the day. Hallelujah :((

(Hm, when did I become a grumpy old man?)

(As for the C++ binary compatibility constraints: they're horrendous, and I remain amazed that KDE can stick to them.)