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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:24:09 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/libwmf Makefile pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20020221182409.GA44592@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <200202211730.g1LHUqQ25415@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:30:52PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> what the ports, in general, are interested in is
> *source* compatibility, and the library version number does not
> necessarily help at all there.  

Of course it helps.  We have specifically instrumented the Ports
Collection so that these dependencies can be detected.  If the version
numbers were not taken into account, then there would not be any
reasonable means of detecting API changes.

What exactly are you arguing?  That we should drop the use of shared
library version numbers from ports?
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Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
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