Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:55:13 +0200 |
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> I'd like API stability, if API stability is > achieved, ABI is there.
this is a joke right? If you really think this you have no idea what ABI stability means and how extremely hard it is to even sort of remotely approach it.
Trust me. It's *extremely* hard to impossible. Several security fixes can only be fixed this way. And it's REALLY fragile even if for other fixes. And I am very glad that the linux kernel people in general decide to not go for abi stability, the hacks that would be needed would be so obscene and the gains very very minimal. (it's open source, you have the source after all!)
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