From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 15 21:21:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FBAD16A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.chesapeake.net (chesapeake.net [208.142.252.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0D843F75 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:21:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Received: from localhost (jroberson@localhost) by mail.chesapeake.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hAG5LDk05069; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:21:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:21:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson To: Garance A Drosihn In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20031116002004.J10222-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP new statfs structure X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 05:21:15 -0000 On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 6:20 PM -0800 11/15/03, David O'Brien wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:16:03PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > >> Provided that we > > > 2. replace the date with a convenient sequence number, > > > which we can call the minor version number, and > >.. > > > E.g.: libc.so.6.0, libc.so.6.1, and (first release) libc.so.6.2... > > > >Please no -- it wouldn't be easy to see a.out libs from ELF ones. > >(yes I still have some a.out binaries) > > Maybe: > libc.so.6.e0, libc.so.6.e1, and (first release) libc.so.6.e2... > > I have no idea what would be best to do, but I do think we > (developers and users alike) would be much better off if > we had some way to handle all these changes which come in. > > Or maybe the real problem is that we claim that there will > be no API/ABI changes after X.0-RELEASE, and we've really > missed that mark with 5.0-RELEASE, for a variety of reasons. > If we're going to keep missing that mark with the 6.x-series, > then we should plan to do something to make life a little > less painful. Right now it's getting more painful, if for > no other reason than we have more developers, and thus more > major-changes in the pipeline. The API and ABI are frozen when we make 5.x-STABLE and branch 6.x. Until then it's open to change. This was decided up front. Cheers, Jeff > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >