[libbluray-devel] 0.2.2 release date

[Petri Hintukainen]

On ti, 2012-03-20 at 19:21 -0400, Rafaël Carré wrote:
> Le 2012-03-20 17:53, Xavier Bachelot a écrit :
> > On 03/20/2012 10:49 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:43:17PM +0100, Xavier Bachelot wrote :
> >>> Was that expected ?
> >>
> >> Yes
> >> http://git.videolan.org/?p=libbluray.git;a=commit;h=28d96f77ab8a774c8e2ef5b88a6ebced84794608
> >>
> > 
> > What I meant is, isn't that an ABI breakage and shouldn't the soname be
> > bumped to acknowledge that ?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Xavier
>
> ABI didn't change, only API; so no problem.

That's how I see it too.

Technically changing semantics of a function is ABI change. But
semantics were not changed in this case. Application was never allowed
to modify returned data. Adding const there just enforces already
existing semantics at API level.

This may cause compilation problems with C++ apps that store returned
pointer to non-const pointer... But 0.2.2 is still backwards binary
compatible with 0.2.1.


- Petri