[libbluray-devel] 0.2.2 release date

[Xavier Bachelot]

On 03/21/2012 09:04 AM, Petri Hintukainen wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks for the detailed explanations, that's always much better than the 
output of an automated tool.
I'm now confident I can push this update over 0.2.1.

Regards,
Xavier