*.so compatibility was: [ANN] Mozart 1.2.5 Revision 1

[Leif Kornstaedt]

gabor.szokoli at vanderbilt.edu (Gabor Szokoli) writes:
> A, Are native modules built with/for 1.2.3 supposed to work under
> 1.2.5 or not on windows?

They will probably not work, though they might.  You should
recompile them.

> A=no -> B, Is the new gcc or the re-engineering of the code that
> causes the incompatibility?

It is most probably the re-engineering, since Mozart 1.2.5 for
Windows is still built with gcc 2.95.3.

> A=no ^ B=code -> C, Would it make sense to merge the bugfixes and
> enhancements that are orthogonal to the compiler-specific parts back
> to the old-compiler branch, and maintain a backwards compatible
> distribution?

Maybe it would, but we do not have to manpower to support
any more branches than we do now.  We have already the fixes
and the development branch; duplicating these for several
compilers is more than we can do.

Leif
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