Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:16:37 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: Dima Panov <fluffy@fluffy.khv.ru>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r199827 - in head: include lib/libc/compat-43 sys/sys Message-ID: <86pr6vvybe.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20091202132904.GH2368@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> (Kostik Belousov's message of "Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:29:04 %2B0200") References: <200911261349.nAQDnco2083469@svn.freebsd.org> <200912021926.02346.fluffy@fluffy.khv.ru> <20091202132904.GH2368@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> writes: > No. My interpretation of __FreeBSD_version is that the bump indicates > incompatible change in the interfaces. ...or the introduction of a new interface; see for instance r194210, where simon@ bumped it to mark a new OpenSSL version with new features. It is widely used in the ports tree to determine whether a particular patch should be applied. (actually, that's precisely the reason why __FreeBSD_version was introduced, and it lived in userland for a while before eivind@ moved it into the kernel in 1998) > Sometime it is used to mark the point where big changes hit the tree, > possibly not related to interface change. Bumps are cheap, better one too many than one too few. > Also, __FreeBSD_version denotes the kernel "version". No, it has been bumped for libc changes in the past. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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