Re: GNU Guile 3.0.3 released

[Chris Vine <vine35792468@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:05:51 +0200
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Chris Vine <vine35792468@gmail.com> skribis:
> 
> > On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 23:04:03 +0200
> > Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> We are delighted to announce GNU Guile release 3.0.3, the third bug-fix
> >> release of the new 3.0 stable series.  This release represents 170
> >> commits by 17 people since version 3.0.2.  See the NEWS excerpt that
> >> follows for full details.
> > [snip]
> >
> > This has a libguile so ABI jump from libguile-3.0.so.1 to
> > libguile-3.0.so.3, which breaks my binaries linked to libguile.  Is that
> > normal for a micro update in the stable release series and if so can
> > there be some warning in the announcement?
> 
> Yes, it means you need to relink those binaries.
> 
> I was hesitant about the SONAME: the ABI jump was unnecessary unless in
> ‘--disable-deprecated’ builds.  I erred on the side of cautiousness:
> 
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=5d052c87bd8f0fd894e67f0bebd4fa6f6160d83c

Hi,

Ah right.  There must have been two SO breaks between guile-3.0.2 and
guile-3.0.3.

It's a nuisance having SO bumps on micro releases and I wonder if that
could be included in the announcement so that you don't first notice it
when stuff fails to run?

Chris