On Wednesday 2021-02-17 16:19, L A Walsh wrote:
On 2021/02/16 23:30, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
Seems you mix up Tumbleweed as rolling release distribution with openSUSE Leap/SLE as stable distribution. In the first case, you have always the newest stuff, in the later case, you have stable interfaces, with the drawback, this is old code.
Windows gets around it by having multiple so's -- installing the 'so' that each program compiled with.
Which is a problematic approach too, because (a) even functions that are unchanged between two versions now occupy extra disk space. (b) when a program loads two or more versions, possibly indirectly (and thus can't control it), the libraries compete on who gets to provide what symbol. And then things can crash because oh the library with the slightly different ABI won the dlopen competition. That said, the repositories ship multiple SOs when the dependency tree needs it.