[Development] API/ABI changes report
Allan Sandfeld Jensen
kde at carewolf.com
Fri Feb 12 10:25:26 CET 2016
On Friday 05 February 2016, Ponomarenko Andrey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've started to maintain API/ABI changes report for the Qt library here:
> http://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/qt/
>
> It took about two weeks to build and perform analysis for ~50 versions of
> the library from 4.0 up to 5.6.0-beta and finally I can share the report
> with the community. Hope the report will help Linux maintainers of the
> library to be aware of ABI structure changes and added/removed binary
> symbols.
>
> I understand that the report contains several false positives and
> definitely some false negatives. Also it says nothing about behavioral ABI
> changes. But it still can be used as a first approximation.
>
> Please let me know if some information in the report is incorrect/missed or
> you see some obvious false positives/negatives. I'll try to improve basic
> analysis tools.
>
Well QtWebEngine is missing. Of course that is only relevant for the latest
versions, but an full ABI check would still be very appreciated.
`Allan
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