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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:53:00 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        alk@pobox.com
Cc:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Libraries 
Message-ID:  <199804141653.KAA13264@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:49:18 CDT." <199804141649.LAA12862@pobox.com> 
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In message <199804141649.LAA12862@pobox.com> Tony Kimball writes:
: I had thought the whole point of the .so.maj.min scheme was that
: existing applications could continue to use .so.(N-1).x while newly
: compiled applications use .so.N.x.

That's true.  However, there are problems with that.  People "like" to
use the maj.min of the software (eg libtcl.so.8.1) when in fact there
is no correlation between some software releases' maj/min library
number and their relase name.  There have been various kludges tried
over the years in the FreeBSD tree.  Sadly, the maj/min.so.1.0 is the
only one that has proven to be viable in the long run.  All others are
either confusing or broken :-(.  It sucks less than the alternatives
is what I'm saying.

Warner

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