[gst-devel] API/ABI freeze

[Ronald Bultje]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 20:53, David Schleef wrote:
> Yeah.  It's pretty annoying to chase a bug for a few hours, just to
> find that a structure changed size in the core, and you didn't recompile
> all the plugins.  So now that we have padding, I just make it a point
> to never change a structure size.  I'd like to encourage this as a
> general practice during an unstable branch, too -- just update the
> padding right before every release.  Other ABI changes (function
> changes or removal) seem to be easier to track down while debugging.

On my system, this triggers a recompile of everything with
autoconf/automake. Are you using maintainer mode? (Or just too lazy to
recompile? ;) ).

Ronald

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Ronald Bultje <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net>
Linux Video/Multimedia developer