[Pkg-ace-devel] Upload of ACE+TAO 6.0.3+2.0.3 to experimental

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Thomas Girard <thomas.g.girard at free.fr>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> ACE+TAO 6.0.3+2.0.3 was uploaded to experimental.
>
> = Changes =
>
> A lot of things changed in that upload:
>
>
Thank you for all the hard work. I have been quite busy with work lately :-(


> = Building =
>
> The way to build ACE+TAO packages have hence changed:
>
>  1. clone the repo:
>      git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-ace/pkg-ace.git
>    for anonymous access, or if you have your key on Alioth:
>      git clone git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-ace/pkg-ace.git
>
>    @Marek, Pau: can you please confirm you have RW access to the git
>    repo on Alioth?
>
>
I can confirm I can NOT even clone the repository with git+ssh :-/

After the Alioth fiasco, I couldn't access authenticated repositories
anymore. As I was so busy lately, I had not had time to even try to figure
who I need to contact. Do you have a pointer?

  * investigate whether ACE or the packaging, could benefit using a
>   better versionning mechanism {?}.
>   Indeed for every release we have to go to NEW because the library
>   SONAME changes. How far is ACE+TAO from a stable API? This should be
>   discussed with upstream, but I think measuring diff for past release
>   may help. I see two different tools that could help here:
>     - dpkg symbol files [4]
>

Last time I tried this (a couple of years ago, maybe more), this was nearly
impossible to use for C++ due to different mangling on different
architectures. IIRC some work was done in that regard, but I cannot find a
link. Do you have any experience with this? Does it work well for C++?

The best way to avoid soname problems is to use pimpl in ACE, like Qt does.
That would make ACE a bit slower, bigger, and would require a ton of work to
implement :-(

    - abi-compliance-checker [5]
>
>
When we first tried this tool (version 1.0) in KDE, we discovered it was not
too good. I don't know if it has got any better.


-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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