1.0 ABI guarantees, static linking, reimplementation

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--- Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com> schrieb:

> John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > I believe Skype statically links 0.22 in.
> 
> Ow, I doubt that even works with our current version - did we really 
> never change the protocol since then? ;-)
> 
I was busy writing a compatibility layer for this situation (until I
found an update source) So I can testify that some names of
o.fd.DBus's methods changed.
> > We can lock this stuff down for 1.0 and say that 1.2 is allowed to
> break
> > compatibility if the necessity arises.
> 
> Right, needless to say even if we leave ourselves some loopholes to
> make 
> needed changes, we'd want to do it in real releases only not in point
> 
> releases, and take other steps to keep things as painless as
> possible.
> 
> Havoc
> 
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