From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 19 11:18:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0546D16A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:18:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E738143D39 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:18:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.6/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i3JII621009036; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.193] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0)i3JII5Jp007188; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:18:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF474609CBACCE@waexch1.qgraph.com> References: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF474609CBACCE@waexch1.qgraph.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:17:59 -0400 To: "Ziller, James" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Dependency hell X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:18:07 -0000 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