From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 11 17:58:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07321 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:58:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07300 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:58:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA06464; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:58:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA02279; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:58:10 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:58:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199802120158.SAA02279@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: Nate Williams , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bumping the minor number on the library? In-Reply-To: <199802120152.KAA17111@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> References: <199802120052.RAA01846@mt.sri.com> <199802120152.KAA17111@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >Since stringlist.c was added to libc, shouldn't be bump the minor number > >of the library? This just bit me when I updated, and adding new > >functionality to a library implies to me a minor number bump. > > Will there be a compatibility library? Or, it won't be necessary? It's un-necessary. Old programs will work with the new library, but new programs won't work with the old library, hence the reason for the bump. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe stable" in the body of the message