[Gpe-list] Rationalising tasks databases

Neal H. Walfield neal at walfield.org
Sat Dec 30 22:28:50 CET 2006


At Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:22:12 +0100,
Koen Kooi wrote:
> > My intent is to make this change in the libtododb code.  However, to do this
> > I'll need to change the todo_item struct.  It's been a while since I've
> > hacked much C, but I'm fairly certain that changing this struct will
> > incompatibly change the library ABI -- which, if I'm not mistaken, requires
> > a SONAME change.  Except I can't see anywhere to change the SONAME.  Could
> > someone point out what I'm missing here?
> 
> Neal and Graham have been making pretty big changes[1] to libtododb in svn, so it could be
> possible to get your changes in when they bump SONAME. Neal, Graham?

That's a pretty small change, actually.  And as it is only the
addition of a function, it doesn't require a bump to the soname.



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