Introducing abidiff (was Re: [Guielines Change] Changes to the packaging guidelines)

[Petr Machata]

Dodji Seketeli <dodji at seketeli.org> writes:

>> but the link just points to the package. While it's not necessarily
>> difficult to use, I wouldn't quite call it intuitive either.
>
> Indeed.  And while we are in the "Shameless Plug" department, I'd like
> to mention the presence of a new tool called 'abidiff'.  You can learn
> about it at https://sourceware.org/libabigail/manual/abidiff.html.

I used abiff to evaluate impact of recent TBB rebase, and would like to
corroborate Dodji's statement.  It's a great tool.

> I'd be glad to mention abidiff on that page too, but as I don't intend
> to force it upon you guys, I'd wait for folks to look at the tool
> and say what they think first.

It should be there in my opinion.

Thanks,
Petr