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How lovely to live in a world where api contracts are absolute and complicated internal behaviors never conflict in unforeseen ways. We’ve really gotten on top

• hedora 4y ago
  That's exactly the problem deb files and apt solve (via integration testing and documenting antidependences.)
• arinlen 4y ago
  > How lovely to live in a world where api contracts are absolute and complicated internal behaviors never conflict in unforeseen ways. Some libraries managed to preserve API contracts throughout the years just fine. Even in C++, a language which does not establish a standard ABI, has frameworks which have not been breaking the ABI throughout multiple releases, such as Qt.