Re: [libxml++] [patch] Global initialization code

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 18:51 +0200, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> Christophe,
> 
> On Monday 13 June 2005 13:08, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> > > So it looks like a --disable-static-initialisation in the configure
> > > script would solve the issue.
> > >
> > > Any objection ?
> >
> > Fine with me. Of course we have to add a destructor to the Document::Init
> > class and reset the callbacks. The Document::Init constructor needs an
> > additional parameter (default: true) if it should call xmlCleanupParser()
> > during destruction.
> >
> > I had another idea:
> > Would it be possible to create the global _init object via an include file?
> >
> > #define LIBXMLPP_DISABLE_STATIC_INIT 1
> > #include <libxml++.h>
> >
> > Multiple applications which use libxml++ could still
> > share the same binary library file.
> 
> I implemented the code like I wrote above. And it works :-)
> It's not ABI compatible as the new library doesn't contain the static init 
> object, but it's 100% API compatile. -> It's best to bumb the .so version
> for the next release.

That would be highly undesirable. ABI compatibility must be maintained
until we have a really good reason to break it.

-- 
Murray Cumming
murrayc murrayc com
www.murrayc.com
www.openismus.com