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Subject: Re: Shared library version bump?
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In message: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0605081700490.11616@sea.ntplx.net>
            Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes:
: On Mon, 8 May 2006, Scott Long wrote:
: 
: > Daniel Eischen wrote:
: >> In preparation for release of 7.0, can we please have
: >> a shared library version bump?  I'd like to enable
: >> symbol versioning by default.
: >> 
: >
: > Sorry, this has been a low priority in my brain due to 6.1.
: 
: No problem.  I intentionally waited until 6.1 was just about
: done before pinging you again.
: 
: > Yes, we do want this.  You should send out appropriate HEADS UP
: > emails before and after it happens so that everyone is prepared.
: > Did you want to be in charge of all of this, or did you have
: > someone else in mind?
: 
: I've not done this before.  Is it just a matter of bumping
: SHLIB_MAJOR in lib/Makefile.inc and lib/*/Makefile?

Hopefully this will be the last major bump for a long time...
Otherwise, why bother with symbol versioning at all...

Warner