News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”. Parent comment

Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by account42 on Monday May 03, 2021 @08:21AM (#27024129)
If libfoobar-1.0.4 is not a drop-in upgrade for libfoobar-1.0.3 then it should have a different SONAME, which would allow distributions to package both of them.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by ric2b on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:02PM (#27026753)
But a breaking change probably doesn't impact all programs that depend on it, so that approach still ends up with many installed versions that could probably have been shared.
[ Parent | on HN ]