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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