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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:58:19 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Proposal on shared libs version values.
Message-ID:  <20010212175819.A9537@dragon.nuxi.com>

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[reply to *THIS* one, not the one with the wrong reply-to: -alpha]


I don't know why the participants of this will not bring this to -arch
for discussion.....  So I will.


The proposal on the table is an allowance in our policy that in -CURRENT,
a shared lib's version number may be bumped to
"<-CURRENT_MAJ_VER_NUMBER>XY", where XY=00 initially when the FreeBSD
major version is bumped (ie, right after a new -STABLE branch is
created).

[note we may want to postpone the bumping until the first non-compatible
change to help keep track of which libs are incompatible with the latest
-STABLE]

At any point along the development of -CURRENT that a shared version bump
would be helpful.

One month (or so) before the -CURRENT --> -BETA change (ie, feature
slush) we change the shared libs' version numbers to the next consecutive
value from what is in the latest -STABLE.

Opinions?

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


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