Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:16:40 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/libwmf Makefile pkg-plist Message-ID: <20020221171640.GA44316@madman.nectar.cc> In-Reply-To: <200202211713.g1LHDFF25291@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200202211702.g1LH2Kw69894@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020221170549.GB40194@madman.nectar.cc> <200202211713.g1LHDFF25291@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:13:15PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:05:49 -0600, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > I object. Shared libraries have version numbers for a reason. This > > seems foolish to me. > > Unfortunately, many developers these days have no idea what this > reason is, and frequently increment the version number even when no > interface changes would require it -- typically so that it matches > their idea of the package revision. I'm not sure that applies to the packages upon which libwmf depends. But even if it did, it is still foolish to ignore the version numbers. One doesn't know whether the major version was bumped gratuitously or not. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc> 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
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