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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:32:13 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/libwmf Makefile pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20020221133213.A41321@hellblazer.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <200202211922.g1LJMWt26636@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:22:32PM -0500
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:22:32PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> [N.B.: I am not on the `ports' list.  Please do not CC me except in
> direct response to this message.]

I'm not on it either.

> > If the version numbers were not taken into account, then there would
> > not be any reasonable means of detecting API changes.
> 
> There still isn't.  

It is better than nothing.

[snip a bunch of stuff with which I mostly agree]

That's all fine and good, but none of it justifies dropping the
mechanism we have now.  That is what this commit has done, and I
believe it should be un-done.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                     http://www.nectar.cc/
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jvidrine@verio.net      .   nectar@FreeBSD.org   .           nectar@kth.se

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