Fedora opens up to bundling

Posted Oct 14, 2015 18:30 UTC (Wed) by xtifr (guest, #143)
In reply to: Fedora opens up to bundling by ms_43
Parent article: Fedora opens up to bundling

This is quite wrong, there are certainly quite a few libraries that maintain very good ABI compatibility for the last 15 years now: glibc2, NSS, libxml2, glib2, various X11 client libraries, libGL come to mind.

Far more than that if you consider bumping the version when incompatibilities are introduced to be part of maintaining compatibility. Bumping the version means that the old and new versions of the library can co-exist, which is and should be all that app developers need.

Fedora opens up to bundling

Posted Oct 14, 2015 18:49 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (3 responses)

> Far more than that if you consider bumping the version when incompatibilities are introduced to be part of maintaining compatibility. Bumping the version means that the old and new versions of the library can co-exist, which is and should be all that app developers need.

It also means you must continue to support the old versions indefinitely.