Re: API/ABI reports

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Ponomarenko Andrey
<andrewponomarenko yandex ru> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've started to maintain API/ABI changes reports for the Gtk+ and Glib libraries here:
>
> http://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/gtk+/
> http://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/glib/
>
> The project is just a hobby and I'd like to share my results with the community. Hope this report will help 
> Linux maintainers of these libraries to be aware of ABI changes and added/removed binary symbols.
>
> Please let me know if some information in the report is incorrect.

As a tangential note: these sorts of trackers have somewhat limited
usefulness; many relevant changes are not directly reflected in the
C-level ABI/API. As an example, we are just discussing the
compatibility impact of adding a parameter to a signal in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754743
The change will clearly cause problems for applications connecting to
this signal, but it will not show up in your ABI report at all.