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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Revisiting 64-bit time_t
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 17:57:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0itbve0.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0s0aAMF_Z0p8jBQbkpf=juGifdsG2ypkefzLZ4i0FcdA@mail.gmail.com> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 1 Jul 2019 16:41:51 +0200")

* Arnd Bergmann:

> c) Keep backwards compatibility in libraries, but convert the
>    distro one package at a time.
>    Advantage: If done right, users can upgrade over rolling
>    releases without ABIs breaking
>    Disadvantage: very hard to get right, and much more work
>    than the other two.

ctypes and other FFIs do not use sonames or symbol versioning.  Instead
they encourage that their users use the familiar, unversioned library
names.  So the chance of doing this right seem pretty slim.

Thanks,
Florian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-01 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-28 15:06 Rich Felker
2019-06-29  8:36 ` A. Wilcox
2019-06-29 16:21   ` Rich Felker
2019-07-01 14:41     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-01 14:50       ` A. Wilcox
2019-07-01 15:41         ` Rich Felker
2019-07-01 15:55           ` A. Wilcox
2019-07-01 15:57       ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2019-07-01 16:07       ` Rich Felker
2019-07-02  9:35         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-02 21:09           ` Rich Felker
2019-06-29 16:35 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-01 14:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-01 15:31   ` Rich Felker
2019-07-01 21:12     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-01 22:07       ` Rich Felker
2019-07-02  8:28         ` Arnd Bergmann

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