Re: DBus GLib API

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 15:52 +0000, Rob Taylor wrote:
> Can anyone with a bit more library maintenance experience give me some
> advice on the best way forward? I don't want to just ignore the ABI
> issue, given the rapidly growing number of components depending on
> dbus-glib. Is the best thing to try and maintain ABI going forwards and
> deprecating symbols as needed? I'll also take a look at the main library
> users, if they're just using the mainloop integration perhaps
> Alexander's suggestion of splitting off a static library with just the
> mainloop integration would be a sensible option.

Note that such a static library would have to be built with -fPIC so
that shared libs can link to it.

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