While that may very well be true I feel like this doesn't have much to do anymore with: > with the ABI changing every year for no reason and yet having to supp

While that may very well be true I feel like this doesn't have much to do anymore with: > with the ABI changing every year for no reason and yet having to support users having all kind of version combinations. To which I originally replied. And my point here still stands. I'm not arguing about the backwards or forward compatibility of every single library that might or might not use an IPC mechanism to talk to another component which could break if they're different versions.