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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:51:48 +0100
From:      Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: linked twice against libintl.so
Message-ID:  <20030113215148.GA4109@gicco.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030113174154.GC3131@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20030112221129.GA11959@gicco.homeip.net> <20030112234650.GC95625@dan.emsphone.com> <20030113102353.GA3538@gicco.homeip.net> <20030113174154.GC3131@dan.emsphone.com>

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  On Jan 13 at 11:41, Dan Nelson spoke:

> In the last episode (Jan 13), Hanspeter Roth said:
> > 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

What does ABI mean?

> gettext structure changes, the ABI may change without the API changing.

Is this new stuff in gettext really so useful?
Wouldn't it be enough to insert a new version of gettext into the
ports once a year?

-Hanspeter

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