From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 10:52:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6378A10656D7; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:52:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437868FC08; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.starpoint.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id MAA18581; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:52:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.starpoint.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1Rleke-000Hah-9B; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:52:52 +0200 Message-ID: <4F100D02.3070207@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:52:50 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <4F100209.2010900@gmail.com> <4F100521.7040005@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F100521.7040005@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Volodymyr Kostyrko , FreeBSD-Current , FreeBSD Stable , George Kontostanos Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:52:56 -0000 on 13/01/2012 12:19 Doug Barton said the following: > On 01/13/2012 02:06, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: >> Why can't it be that only shared libraries should be bumped, but no >> kernel incompatible changes were introduced? > > Because one of the reasons we have major branches is so that we can > change the various API/KPI/etc. in the newer branch. Are you saying that every major branch _has_ to introduce incompatibilities into a at least one system call? Otherwise, you are answering a question different from what Volodymyr asked :) -- Andriy Gapon