SQLite and Android N (2016)

Re:SQLite and Android N (2016) by ndesaulniers on Friday January 27, 2017 @11:08AM (#13500562)

Then they have to maintain those versions of those libs forever. Most devices don't have enough storage space for 9 copies of the past major versions of all of these libs.

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Re:SQLite and Android N (2016) by iainmerrick on Friday January 27, 2017 @11:18AM (#13500616)

Well, that's the importance of stable APIs. You only need a new copy on major revisions, which are rare. libcurl, for example, claims to have had a stable API and ABI since 2006 (https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/features.html#stableapi). Why do we only get zlib?

I bet many Android devices already have at least 9 copies of sqlite, since so many apps ship their own copy.

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