11 Apr
2012
11 Apr
'12
3:37 p.m.
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:02:07 -0700 (PDT)
Darrell Anderson <humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
Concerning libpng it's the same thing: libpng doesn't break
compatibility, distributions break compatibility.
For example, libpng 1.0 was evicted from Slackware at version 9.0
(March 2003) but is still in Fedora 16 (the latest). And libpng 1.0 is
still maintained upstream BTW.
But here g++
developers *do* provide backwards
compatibility, it is called -fpermissive. And there is no "bleeding
edge" at all unless you consider C++98 to be a bleeding edge
standard. Anyway, old compilers still work. On my Slackware 13.1
system, I have g++-3.4 installed into /opt, and I can use it to
compile a working program against system Qt4 thanks to system g++
being backwards compatible with g++-3.4 in terms of ABI.
Okay, I sit corrected. :) Yet I believe the overall general attitude
among many free/libre developers remains correct. The libpng project
seems like a good example. Every dot-zero release requires everybody
else to scramble to fix code.
Darrell
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