In the last episode (Jan 13), Hanspeter Roth said:
> On Jan 12 at 17:46, Dan Nelson spoke:
> > You definitely don't want to do this. Shared libraries get version
> > bumps when the APIs change, so all you would do is coredump.
>
> Is gettext's application programming interface changing so often?
> (Without staying compatible.)
Apparently so. If the API doesn't change there's no reason to bump the
version number. Actually I should say ABI (API is the C-level
interface, ABI is the object-level interface). If some internal
gettext structure changes, the ABI may change without the API changing.
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