Chris Murphy (lists(a)colorremedies.com) said:
> Really, this should be solved in upstream projects so you can
expect a
> stable library API across distribution boundaries. Doing it in Fedora is
> not actually solving the problem.
Thanks for the response.
Is it really upstream causing the problem in the first place? Or is it the
distributions, who have always selected what library versions they will
package, while also proscribing packaged libraries in applications, along
with the insistence that it's the distribution package maintainer who
decides what ships, not the developer?
A little from column A, a little from column B. You have well used and
promoted library stacks like Boost, which don't bother with ABI
compatibilty at all. OpenSSL used to do this as well, so did Berkley DB.
When you have library stacks like these, a distribution policy of 'always
ship the latest' *is* going to exacerbate the problem for any users.
Bill