Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 09:30:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jabley@clear.co.nz (Joe Abley) Cc: freebsd@xaa.iae.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF ldconfig Message-ID: <199809200930.CAA13745@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980920133401.B9101@clear.co.nz> from "Joe Abley" at Sep 20, 98 01:34:01 pm
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> That was my concern. Surely there must come a time when two versions of > a shared library exist (with identical major version numbers), and an > application requires to be dynamically linked to the older of the two > because of some incompatability with the newer library? Never. If this ever occurs, you are *required* to bump the major version number. Minor version number changes are reserved for (a) bug fixes and (b) additional interfaces that do not impact existing interfaces. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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