From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 14 09:52:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15675 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:52:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA15646 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:52:47 GMT (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0yP8wk-0006eK-00; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:52:34 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA13264; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:53:00 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199804141653.KAA13264@harmony.village.org> To: alk@pobox.com Subject: Re: Libraries Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:49:18 CDT." <199804141649.LAA12862@pobox.com> References: <199804141649.LAA12862@pobox.com> <199804141450.IAA26379@prometheus.frii.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:53:00 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199804141649.LAA12862@pobox.com> Tony Kimball writes: : I had thought the whole point of the .so.maj.min scheme was that : existing applications could continue to use .so.(N-1).x while newly : compiled applications use .so.N.x. That's true. However, there are problems with that. People "like" to use the maj.min of the software (eg libtcl.so.8.1) when in fact there is no correlation between some software releases' maj/min library number and their relase name. There have been various kludges tried over the years in the FreeBSD tree. Sadly, the maj/min.so.1.0 is the only one that has proven to be viable in the long run. All others are either confusing or broken :-(. It sucks less than the alternatives is what I'm saying. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message