Re: [Plib-devel] Creating shared libs or plib under Linux

[Hans de G. <j.w...@hh...>]

Bram Stolk wrote:
> Bram Stolk wrote:
> 
>> Let me see if I can dig up the original reasoning for not doing shared
>> libs, and see if they hold up today. (I'm affraid they do, though :-)
> 
> These arguments from 1999 still seem quite compelling :-)
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/1999/11/msg00038.html
> 
>    bram
> 

Yes, proper library versioning is always important when creating shared
libs and often is used as an argument against shared libs, but one would
expect a library to have a stable API/ABI only changing it on a major
new release.

If you need to change your API/ABI often you didn't do a good job with
your API design in the first place.

Regards,

Hans