Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh AT creativecommons.org>]

I just released liblicense 0.7.0 on SourceForge.  It fixes the Python 
bindings.  They've been broken since the 0.6 release, it seems.  Some 
functionality in them probably worked between 0.6 and 0.7, but (read on 
for more)...

LL_LICENSE and other constants were "extern const char" arrays before. 
Now they're just lousy old #defines.  This way, even though the strings 
might appear more than once in memory, it's very simple for the IO modules 
like exempi.so to refer to those constants.

Before, due to dynamic linker loading order issues, if liblicense.so were 
added to a process's memory memory map at runtime, if liblicense then 
tried to dlopen() its modules, the modules wouldn't be able to find those 
constants.  What a drag!  That broke the Python bindings' ability to use 
the modules.

Now, I guess that's still true, but the modules don't need actual symbols 
from liblicense anymore.

I noticed this issue in the process of creating and testing RPMs for 
Fedora.  I had to bump the SONAME because this removes symbols from the 
library.

You can grab it on SourceForge, and perhaps soon in Fedora Rawhide.
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80503&package_id=238700

-- Asheesh.

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