From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 27 12:09:46 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA05175 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 12:09:46 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA05163 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 12:09:42 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA02906; Mon, 27 Mar 95 10:11:47 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503271711.AA02906@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: shared library versioning To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 95 10:11:46 MST Cc: davidg@Root.COM, paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503271324.XAA19834@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 27, 95 11:24:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> will be no worse than the previous behavior. I suggest we just leave it alone > >> unless you have some other reason to bump the libc major number. > >> > > >Jordan's just added new hash code..... > > There is no problem for new interfaces, except possibly from namespace > pollution. I agree about the _major_ version number not needing a change when you only add interfaces -- you only change it when you delete/alter the existing ones; however, this *must* bump the _minor_ version number! Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.