Re: [liblo] regarding recent issues on 64-bit

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Felipe Sateler <fsa...@gm...> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Stephen Sinclair <rad...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > - check that ABI is backward-compatible replacing the .so
> >   (should i add back the lo_server_recv_raw_stream symbol ?)
>
> I'd say no. Users of private interfaces get what they deserve when
> that interface goes away.
>

Agreed, but maybe he meant add it back just for testing whether it broke
anything to remove it or not.


> There is some testing to be done between apps using 0.26 and 0.27. The
> issues J. Liles reported look more of a protocol break rather than abi
> break.
>
> Perhaps the testsuite can be enhanced to run different endpoints with
> different versions of the library?
>

An excellent idea. I'm pretty sure I had no trace of 0.26 left at the time,
but you never know... Protocol incompatibility would be more disasterous
than an ABI change.