the sorry saga of the talloc soname 'fix'

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:03:58PM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:

> I think talloc, tdb (and later tevent and ldb) are special
> and we should treat them more as standalone libraries with a fixed API.
> And there standalone build systems are independent from samba4.

+1. This is precisely the point I was trying to make.
talloc and tdb are external libraries from Samba now, and
the rules change (IMHO). I think trying to preserve a stable
ABI in this case is very important.

Jeremy