21 Jul
2007
21 Jul
'07
6:41 a.m.
| abi compatibility would be very nice to have (if the library/binding | code | doesn't change, newer ghc major versions should still be able to link | to | bindings compiled with older ones). that is only going to become more | important as fewer libraries are going to be shipped with ghc itself | now | (also with dynamically linked libraries). That is all true. ABI compatibility would be nice. But I don't see how to combine with GHC's other goals. Notably, we frequently add new information to interface files, and it would be a major constraint not to be able to do so. For the present at any rate, ABI incompatibility between major releases seems like the lesser evil. Simon