From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 28 08:22:45 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA19999 for current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:22:45 -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 IAA19993 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:22:44 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA12372; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:22:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:22:27 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503281622.AA12372@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Paul Richards Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: shared library versioning In-Reply-To: <199503281618.RAA14861@isl.cf.ac.uk> References: <9503281611.AA12354@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199503281618.RAA14861@isl.cf.ac.uk> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I'd prefer some comment in the Makefile that flags that the library beens > bumped and then have a script which runs through the tree removing these > comments as part of the release process so they're clean at the start of the > next release. This doesn't help users when the question is ``I just got a program that requires the `bletch' library version 69.17. What release is that from?'' -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