From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 14 18:58:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16394 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:58:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA16357 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 01:58:46 GMT (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (ala-ca34-37.ix.netcom.com [207.93.143.165]) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA28656; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.8/8.6.9) id SAA04485; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804150158.SAA04485@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: imp@village.org CC: alk@pobox.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199804141653.KAA13264@harmony.village.org> (message from Warner Losh on Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:53:00 -0600) Subject: Re: Libraries From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * 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. This is another example of software authors not knowing what they are doing, but not necessarily related to the subject at hand. You can see this in, for example, libjpeg (software version: 6a, shlib version: 7.0). We've tried the libtcl.so.75.0 thing before, and it still didn't work. (Yes, libtcl.so.7.5 was really stupid.) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message