On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 01:04:04PM -0400, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 04:07:13PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > > bump the libgcj soname on the trunk, as done for every release cycle,
> >
> > Is that really needed though these days?
> > Weren't there basically zero changes to libjava (both libjava and
> > libjava/classpath) in the last 2 or more years?
> > The few ones were mostly updating Copyright notices, minor configure
> > changes, but I really haven't seen anything ABI changing for quite a while.
> >
>
> On the Classpath side, there's a bunch of stuff to merge in that would
> change the ABI. It's a matter of finding a good point at which to do it
> and time to do so. I keep missing the right point in the gcc lifecycle.
Now might be a good time (any time next 6.5 months or so), and if that is
done, surely I have no issue with bumping the soname.
Jakub
