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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) 
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:38:40 -0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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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



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