GCC version bikeshedding

[Jeff Law]

On 08/06/14 04:50, Marc Glisse wrote:
>> A clean .so.7 break would be significantly worse nightmare.  We've been
>> there many years ago, e.g. 3.2/3.3 vs. 3.4, there has been significantly
>> fewer C++ plugins etc. in packages and it still it was unsolvable.
>> With the abi_tag stuff, you have the option to make stuff interoperable
>> when mixing compiler, either with no effort at all, or some limited
>> effort.  With .so.7, you have no option, nothing will be interoperable.
>
> I disagree that it is worse, but you have more experience, I guess we
> will see the results in a few years...
Based on real world end user/developer discussions I've had on this 
topic over the last few years, a SOname bump would catastrophic. 
They've made it painfully clear that a SOname bump would be the worst 
thing that has happened in GCC-land in many years, possibly ever.

jeff