From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jul 23 15:00:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12380 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12336 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:00:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id PAA21769; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807232200.PAA21769@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Matthew N. Dodd" Subject: Re: ports/7382 Reply-To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/7382; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Satoshi Asami Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/7382 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:59:44 -0400 (EDT) Since most new versions have more or less incompatible versions of libpico, I'd suggest we name them 'libpico.so.401.0' The maintainers took the patches for the shared library stuff from the port. I recognize my inelegent solution to versioning right away. (Who do you think came up with the original versioning? :) On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote: > I don't know if these changes should be made (leave that to the > maintainers...), but: > > * lib/libpico.so.1.3 -> libpico.so.4.1 (would 4.0.1 be valid?) > > If the new one is incompatible with the old version, then the new one > should be called "libpico.so.2.0" or "libpico401.so.1.0". (Probably > the latter, so pine3 can still be built on a system with pine4 > installed.) > > In no case should the shared library version number linked with the > software's release number. (Just think what will happen if pine-4.0.2 > comes out with an incompatible library.) > > Satoshi > -- /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message