Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 15:30:12 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: shared library versioning Message-ID: <199503272230.PAA03724@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> "Re: shared library versioning" (Mar 27, 5:18pm)
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> <<On Mon, 27 Mar 1995 13:52:48 -0800 (PST), Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> said: > > > No I can't. But until somebody actually uses that particular symbol for > > something, then I don't really want to see 2.1 being >that< incompatible. > > > Alternatively we shoule decide that this is the way it will be, and bump > > the number at any and all release hereafter. > > No, I don't think so. Only libraries whose interface has changed > should be bumped, and said bumping should occur at most once during > the release cycle. Just in case it wasn't obvious, I'm in complete agreement with Garrett here. I don't think the library should be bumped again in this release, but it needed to be done for reasons already explained, and now was as good a time as any to do it. Nate
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