From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 27 14:18:49 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA11706 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:18:49 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA11699 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:18:43 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA11072; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 17:18:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 17:18:36 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503272218.AA11072@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: shared library versioning In-Reply-To: <199503272152.NAA00192@ref.tfs.com> References: <199503272154.OAA03571@trout.sri.MT.net> <199503272152.NAA00192@ref.tfs.com> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > No I can't. But until somebody actually uses that particular symbol for > something, then I don't really want to see 2.1 being >that< incompatible. > Alternatively we shoule decide that this is the way it will be, and bump > the number at any and all release hereafter. No, I don't think so. Only libraries whose interface has changed should be bumped, and said bumping should occur at most once during the release cycle. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant