From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 20 10:57:48 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9086814C34; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:57:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (iras-2-49.ucdavis.edu [169.237.16.177]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA60818; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:56:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA55382; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:56:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:56:20 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Wemm Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include histedit.h src/lib/libedit Makefile editline.3 el.c el.h Message-ID: <19990820105620.X76112@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19990820102441.A55100@dragon.nuxi.com> <19990820174915.D9CA71C1F@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990820174915.D9CA71C1F@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 01:49:15AM +0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > We need to come up with an agreement here. It is clear as mud. ... > > I was talking about the a.out case, as ELF doesn't have it. Can we please discuss the ELF case? BTW, this is a real problem *today*. I bumped libreadline from 3 to 4 when I MFC. (ache did the same in -CURRENT) > No, I'm talking about a.out minor numbers. We do not bump the majors for > addition of stuff, only incompatable changes. > > It makes no sense to have "libfoo.so.2 not found" when it would have worked > fine. *might* have worked fine. What about if a binary using the new functionality (and no major bump), was run on an older system? -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message