From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 21 10:24:15 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.cc [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBFE37B417; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:24:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from madman.nectar.cc (madman.nectar.cc [10.0.1.111]) by gw.nectar.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC9010; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:24:10 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by madman.nectar.cc (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1LIO9V44661; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:24:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:24:09 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/libwmf Makefile pkg-plist Message-ID: <20020221182409.GA44592@madman.nectar.cc> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Garrett Wollman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200202211702.g1LH2Kw69894@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020221170549.GB40194@madman.nectar.cc> <200202211713.g1LHDFF25291@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020221171640.GA44316@madman.nectar.cc> <200202211730.g1LHUqQ25415@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200202211730.g1LHUqQ25415@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Url: http://www.nectar.cc/ Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:30:52PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > what the ports, in general, are interested in is > *source* compatibility, and the library version number does not > necessarily help at all there. Of course it helps. We have specifically instrumented the Ports Collection so that these dependencies can be detected. If the version numbers were not taken into account, then there would not be any reasonable means of detecting API changes. What exactly are you arguing? That we should drop the use of shared library version numbers from ports? -- Jacques A. Vidrine http://www.nectar.cc/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message