On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Andrey Ponomarenko<susanin(a)ispras.ru> wrote:
Hi,
Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System
Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free
lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of
shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface signatures and
data type definitions in two library versions (headers and shared
objects) and searches ABI changes that may lead to incompatibility.
We have released 1.1 version of this tool and we'd like you to consider
its usefulness for your project.
This sounds very useful! Ideally, we would run this tool
automatically for the OS core and ABI changes would require signoff of
some sort, and unless absolutely necessary were reverted.
Tools like this though are at their most effective when they catch
changes upstream not long after they're committed, before downstreams
have at some indeterminate time incremented integers in .spec files or
equivalent to distribute the changes.