From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 28 02:27:33 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA06416 for current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 02:27:33 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA06408 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 02:27:20 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA17860; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:27:22 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199503281027.LAA17860@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: shared library versioning To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:27:21 +0100 (BST) Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9503272218.AA11072@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Mar 27, 95 05:18:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 739 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Garrett Wollman who said > > 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. Yeah, I agree with this. During the release cycle we can handle any library problems ourselves by recompiling what we need to. We maybe should have some mechanism for tracking this so that we know when changing the libraries that someone has already bumped the numbers since the last release. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.