Writing Shared Libraries, first draft

Stuart Anderson anderson at netsweng.com
Fri Nov 5 23:10:11 EET 2004


On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:

> FWIW, I've seen enough of "I have libfoo 2.4 installed on my dev
> machine, and now it #$%^&* compiles with new dependencies that aren't
> there at my libfoo 2.2-using client's site! Who do I kill for that!?" on
> IRC to be very convinced that header versioning is indeed good idea :)

Will fixing the headers actually solve this? Aren't thee dependencies
brought in by the library itself, and not just the hearders?



                                Stuart

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