Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:38:40 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) Message-ID: <200102131538.f1DFceU64209@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200102131533.KAA30494@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:20:51 -0800, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> said: > > > If we had taken -current to 500, we could go to 501, 502, etc as > > required to stop killing our developers, and prior to entering 5.0-BETA we > > go back to the next sequentially available major number (be it 5, or 6 > > if RELENG_4 bumps again). > > Shared library version numbers going backwards is *evil*. Not quite > as evil as it used to be under a.out, but still evil. Please don't go > there. There is no concept of "forward" or "backward" as far as the toolchain and runtime support goes. There is only "filename exists" or "file not found". Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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