[Bug 407571] Review Request: tinyxml - A simple, small, C++ XML parser

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Summary: Review Request: tinyxml - A simple, small, C++ XML parser


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=407571





------- Additional Comments From j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl  2007-12-02 16:08 EST -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> > Upstream's intention is for this to be included with other sources, they
> > do not even offer a Makefile to build a .a, so the chances of there ever 
> > coming an official .so are small.
> 
> They may change their mind.
> 

Yes they may, but I cannot and forsee and thus cannot anticipate every possible
future development, and as things are today there is no indication they will
ever add a buildsystem, let alone building a .so to their non existant buildsystem.

> > Also most likely I'll change the soname to lib%{name}-%{version}.so with the
> > first new upstream version, as I expect them to not care about ABI's and 
> > hapily break it each release (its really easy to cause ABI breakage with 
> > c++). But I'm using lib%{name}.so.0 for now in the hope that they will
> > pleasantly surprise me.
> 
> Using the lib%{name}-%{version}.so  scheme would seem better to me 
> since hopefully upstream won't do that.
> 

Yes, but if they do bugfix releases which do not break ABI this will cause
unnecessary soname changes, so I will adopt this scheme in the future if they
often break ABI, but I do not want to start out with this scheme.


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