Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:36:20 -0500 From: M. MacDonald <scratch65535@att.net> To: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports/pkg incompatibility, os/libc api changes Message-ID: <h0aq3blgsc63gq0j4m87grjugqjqeqpb0k@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <20151106153202.GN2257@kib.kiev.ua> References: <563C7423.70705@demig.de> <20151106153202.GN2257@kib.kiev.ua>
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On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 17:32:02 +0200, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: >There is no formal statement about the guarantees the project provides, >but the essence is that the compatibility is backward (and not forward, >as you found). In other words, we guarantee that a binary compiled and >worked on the previous version of the system, works on the newer version, >but not in reverse. "Backwardly compatible" generally means that, although designed and built for the new one, it will still run on the old one (i.e., it's compatible in a backward direction). Something built on and for the old one that still runs on the new one is often called "investment-preserving".
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