Re: ABI Compliance Checker GSoC Project

=?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> writes:
> On 2025-Sep-12, Tom Lane wrote:
>> My concern is that when we get a report, we might decide to apply
>> some fix to remove the ABI delta, or we might decide it's intentional
>> and/or harmless and leave the code as-is.

> The solution I propose for this (which I have mentioned before) is to
> allow for our source tree to carry exclusion files.  The ABI checker
> would refrain from turning red for any breaks that match what's in those
> files.

That seems substantially more complicated than just moving which
commit is considered the baseline.  It might be less reliable too:
if the exclusions are written sloppily, they might hide problems
we'd rather find out about.  (I do not regard valgrind suppression
files as a model of good engineering...)

            regards, tom lane