From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 9 15: 7:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (haiti-75.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6953D15B3E for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 14:53:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA02246; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:28:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:28:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: Jeremy Lea , chuckr@mat.net, jdp@polstra.com, asmodai@wxs.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os In-Reply-To: <199904091606.MAA61019@misha.cisco.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'd like to voice my opposition to this. While it maybe an acceptable > way to work around poor (or non-existant) release engineering of SOME > software, making this a rule may defeat one of the major purposes of > shared libraries: drop-in replacement. Think of libXaw3d, for example. > What's wrong with different filenames for different libs? Do you think that the Gnome libs are going to stand still long enough for someone (you) to write a drop in replacement? Besides, most of the functionality that libXaw3d provides over libXaw is provided by Gtk+ themes. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message