Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 03:49:34 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/libwmf Makefile pkg-plist Message-ID: <864rkak6v5.wl@archon.musha.org> In-Reply-To: <20020221182409.GA44592@madman.nectar.cc> 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> <20020221182409.GA44592@madman.nectar.cc>
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At Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:24:09 -0600,
nectar wrote:
> 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?
BTW, I posted a reply to the ports@ list CC'ing to portmgr@. Let's
move and continue this discussion there.
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