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Then they have to maintain those versions of those libs forever. Most devices don't have enough storage space for 9 copies of the past major versions of all of
by ndesaulniers 10y ago
Then they have to maintain those versions of those libs forever. Most devices don't have enough storage space for 9 copies of the past major versions of all of these libs.
- iainmerrick 10y agoWell, that's the importance of stable APIs. You only need a new copy on major revisions, which are rare. libcurl, for example, claims to have had a stable API and ABI since 2006 (https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/features.html#stableapi https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/features.html#stableapi). Why do we only get zlib? I bet many Android devices already have at least 9 copies of sqlite, since so many apps ship their own copy.