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Re: Possible ld.so modifications
Mike Hearn wrote:
> partially though ignorance and partially because it's a lot more effort.
That's no excuse.
> Also of course although gtk could have only versioned symbols that had
> changed, in reality the internals of GTK changed massively in the
> transition from 1 to 2 (ie GObject was pulled out into glib). They
> relied on libtool versioning to make this easy for them and their users.
You completely miss the point. Because gtk uses symbol versioning the
two versions can use the same interface names without colliding.
Exactly what you want.
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