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Date:      Tue, 21 Feb 1995 01:15:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        olah@cs.utwente.nl (Andras Olah)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Library version policy (was: tcpdump 3.0?)
Message-ID:  <199502210915.BAA21311@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <6497.793357354@utis156> from "Andras Olah" at Feb 21, 95 10:02:34 am

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> 
> I'm afraid I'm asking for trouble! ;-)  So far I've got the
> following possibilities for the version number of libpcap:
> 
> 1) We've got libpcap v0.0pl3 from ftp.ee.lbl.gov in our tree.
> 2) When installed it defaults to libpcap.so.2.0 (current situation)
> 3) Garrett proposed 1.1
> 4) Rod voted for 2.4

My input was based upon a few quick greps over the sources we have
and turning up the following in pcap.h:

#define PCAP_VERSION_MAJOR 2
#define PCAP_VERSION_MINOR 4

Now why the called the tarball v0.0pl3 when infact the thing calls
itself 2.4 is beyond me :-( 

-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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