Hi all,
I'll see what I can do. To be honest, the only platforms that really support this
are Linux and Solaris. I definitely have access to Linux machines, but not a
Solaris machine. I might be able to get access to the latter.
Despite all of the talk about whether symbol versioning is useful (and this is not
meant to be snarky), keep in mind the major commercial Linux distributions use
symbol versioning, as well as the free Linux distributions. I work for SUSE and
my colleagues highly recommend getting symbol versioning into FreeType. I
agree with them and am willing to do the work as I find time - as the saying goes,
put my money where my mouth is.
The only thing I would need is a way of getting the API functions to add to a
symbol versioning linker file. This way, the symbol versioning script doesn't
need to be checked in, and if we add something to the API, we don't need to
worry about missing it in the library version file.
Regards,
Tom