[Development] Summary ABI compabilty

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 22 de novembro de 2016 11:33:55 PST Marco Bubke wrote:
> Short Term ABI compability(1-2 years):
> 
> 
> * better bug fixing

By a very small margin. We've got 20 years of experience fixing bugs without 
breaking ABI.

> * faster development

Unproven.

> * faster adoption of standards
>   - con: we don't want to adapt them because our solution is better

Unrelated. The standard libraries *do* keep their ABI, mostly. We can choose 
to use libstdc++ and libc++ in our ABI and still keep our ABI, though with 
some restrictions. We'd be subject to breakages in those libraries if they did 
that, accidentally or no, but in those cases the problems would affect almost 
all C++ programs anyway.

> 
> 
> Long Term ABI compability(5-10 years):
> 
> 
> * easier life of Linux packager
> 
>   - con: you can use Flatpack in many case (disputed)


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