From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 13 13:52: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260CA37B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:52:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gicco.homeip.net (dclient80-218-75-162.hispeed.ch [80.218.75.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4DC43E4A for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hampi@rootshell.be) Received: from localhost.here (idefix@gicco.homeip.net [127.0.0.1]) by gicco.homeip.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0DLpqfP004169 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:51:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hampi@rootshell.be) Received: (from idefix@localhost) by localhost.here (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0DLpmPA004168 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:51:48 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.here: idefix set sender to hampi@rootshell.be using -f Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:51:48 +0100 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linked twice against libintl.so Message-ID: <20030113215148.GA4109@gicco.homeip.net> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030112221129.GA11959@gicco.homeip.net> <20030112234650.GC95625@dan.emsphone.com> <20030113102353.GA3538@gicco.homeip.net> <20030113174154.GC3131@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030113174154.GC3131@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Jan 13 at 11:41, Dan Nelson spoke: > In the last episode (Jan 13), Hanspeter Roth said: > > Is gettext's application programming interface changing so often? > > (Without staying compatible.) > > Apparently so. If the API doesn't change there's no reason to bump the > version number. Actually I should say ABI (API is the C-level > interface, ABI is the object-level interface). If some internal What does ABI mean? > gettext structure changes, the ABI may change without the API changing. Is this new stuff in gettext really so useful? Wouldn't it be enough to insert a new version of gettext into the ports once a year? -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message