Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 01:28:53 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, bde@zeta.org.au Cc: ache@astral.msk.su, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: does xdr_float addition requires minor number bumping or what? Message-ID: <199507251528.BAA02402@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I suggest (now, as I did before) we bump it now, and note that fact in
>the commit log of the appropriate Makefile. That way we don't have to
>worry about
>(1) forgetting to bump it, and
>(2) the mad rush of version number changes right before the release,
> which forced the recompilation of the entire ports tree last time
That way we have to worry about newly compiled ports being annoying to
use in 2.0.5R and maybe in 2.1. ld.so will print the confusing message:
warning: libc.so.2.1: minor version < 2 expected; using it anway
Perhaps ld.so meant to say "minor version < 2 UNexpected". I'd prefer
it to say something like "minor version >= 2 expected; using #1 anyway".
OTOH if you don't bump the minor every time it is technically required,
then newly compiled ports will mysteriously fail in 2.0.5R and maybe in
2.1 if they actually use the new features.
I prefer things to fail unmysteriously :-).
Bruce
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