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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:22:27 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: shared library versioning
Message-ID:  <9503281622.AA12372@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503281618.RAA14861@isl.cf.ac.uk>
References:  <9503281611.AA12354@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199503281618.RAA14861@isl.cf.ac.uk>

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<<On Tue, 28 Mar 1995 17:18:44 +0100 (BST), Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> 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

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