Re: [AD] Why I was talking about dropping ABI in WIP versions |
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Hi,
The issue was spcifically to remove the ABI section off WIP releases
only :D not the stable ones
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:08:22 +0200, Eric Botcazou
<ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "Once Allegro 4.2 is released, we plan to maintain backward
> > compatibility... the dynamically linked library"
>
> Please quote the entire sentence, which is: " Once Allegro 4.2 is released,
> we plan to maintain backward compatibility at the Application Binary
> Interface level for the subsequent releases of the 4.2.x series."
>
> > Well, in 4.1.x there were many changes that were made... and the
> > problem was that because the documentation meant that the newer
> > versions of the library could be compatible on the older DLLs for
> > example. Consider the functions which got deprecated. Did they get
> > exported too?
>
> I fail to see where is the contradiction.
>
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