Possible JACK ABI changes between 0.118 and 1.9.5

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 01:24:23PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:50, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> 

>> For jack, I think the amount of symbol files is just too much ATM. 
>> First, I'd strongly suggest to hide the symbols.
>
>I agree here. Symbol tracking does not make sense when the signal/noise 
>ratio is too high, as in this case.

I agree that the *switch* from 1.1.x to 1.9.x is noisy, I raised that as 
a concern, Reinhard have checked it out and judged it as not worrying, 
and I am satisfied with that.

I do not expect similar noise from here on.  If more noise occur due to 
applied VCS patching, I would want to know, as we then might 
accidentally include upstream API-breaking changes too new for next 
upstream stable release.


>>> And yes, if you coding experts (compared to me) consider the symbol 
>>> differences between 1.1.x and 1.9.x not worrying, then I will 
>>> proceed with releasing the current packaging, and postpone polishing 
>>> the symbol file handling till later :-)
>>
>> That's really hard to tell with that much noise. That noise also 
>> makes maintaining the symbol files in future unnecessary hard for my 
>> taste.
>
>Painful, error-prone and superfluous. Shlibs files are enough for the 
>relatively stable jack API, IMO.

We only _assume_ JACK API to be stable - yet we track upstream VCS so 
should not be certain IMO.


Regards,

  - Jonas

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