Mike Hearn mike@theoretic.com writes:
Is there a reason you're considering symvers rather than simply bumping the soname when ABI compatability is broken?
Is it a case of "well wine is huge, so we can't really expect people to install multiple versions"? I think that's the reasoning the libc people use, but as the bulk of Wine is effectively abi stable anyway thanks to the 'soft, I don't see it as being such a big deal.
The wine internal libraries are still about a megabyte of code, and it's silly to duplicate all of that whenever a single function changes. Symbol versioning is much better solution to that problem, and I don't see much reason for not using it (except on platforms that don't support it of course).