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Date:      Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:17:59 -0400
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        "Ziller, James" <James.Ziller@qg.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Dependency hell
Message-ID:  <E3648CEB-922D-11D8-9D0B-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF474609CBACCE@waexch1.qgraph.com>
References:  <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF474609CBACCE@waexch1.qgraph.com>

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On Apr 19, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Ziller, James wrote:
> So in other words I do have to recompile everything that depends on a 
> given
> library just because that library is updated to a slightly newer 
> version?:(

Well, you could simply use the old version of the library.

It's not especially hard to write code in a way that maintains upwards 
compatibility-- putting a version # or sizeof(struct foo) in structures 
being passed around helps!-- but some projects don't bother.

-- 
-Chuck



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