Re: DBus GLib API

["James Henstridge" <james jamesh id au>]

On 15/02/07, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> 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.

Would we run into a problem if an application used two libraries that
had linked this glib mainloop integration static library?

James.