From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 16 05:39:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03817 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 05:39:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from coleridge.kublai.com (coleridge.kublai.com [207.96.1.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA03797; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 05:38:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.kublai.com) Received: from natasya.kublai.com (natasya.kublai.com [207.172.25.236]) by coleridge.kublai.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06565; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:38:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.kublai.com) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.kublai.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) id IAA00259; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:38:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980916083827.A223@kublai.com> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:38:27 -0400 From: Brian Cully To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF transition for ports Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: <199809160627.XAA03085@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199809160627.XAA03085@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 11:27:39PM -0700 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 11:27:39PM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > Yes. Say libfoo.so.1 is a link to libfoo.so.1.26. If libfoo.so.1.27 > is really an upwards compatible (but not downwards compatible) upgrade > of libfoo.so.1.26, then the version number *should* be bumped. And > since ELF only sees "libfoo.so.1", the only way to bump it is > "libfoo.so.2". Let's make things nice and sparkling clear: So we should only bump the major number if it's required (i.e., we'll be fixing brain damage on the part of the library, which should have bumped its major number anyway when an incompatible change was made)? So in most cases a minor number bump will not warrant a major number bump (since minor number bumps normall don't create incompatible changes), no? -- Brian Cully ``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message