When do dependencies need a revbump?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Wed Nov 13 08:45:25 PST 2013


Subject: When do dependencies need a revbump?
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
                  dependents

Just for the record, I am pretty sure you meant the right thing. :-)

On 2013-11-13 16:50, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>  See this one for example:
>    http://trac.wxwidgets.org/changeset/75142
>    http://trac.wxwidgets.org/changeset/75143
> 
> I suspect these might be the candidates for making the revbump
> necessary, but I'm not sure.

Yes, if this class is exposed in the public headers and supposed to be
inherited by applications, then adding a new virtual function to this
class breaks the ABI as it changes the vtable and the size of the object.

Rainer


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