From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 15:28:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA84316A4B3 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B58843F85 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:28:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 14756 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2003 22:28:24 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Oct 2003 22:28:24 -0000 Message-ID: <3F99A788.7060305@liwing.de> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 22:28:24 +0000 From: Jens Rehsack User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031022 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <3F99947D.1010209@liwing.de> <1067032603.72765.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1067032603.72765.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: ports/58416: [PATCH] fix broken build of textproc/xmlwrapp] X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 22:28:27 -0000 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:07, Jens Rehsack wrote: > >>Hi Joe, >> >>it seems that the last update of libxml2 breaks a little bit, and the >>below quoted forward shows where. Do you think increasing the shared >>library version because of this API incompatibility would make sense? > > > According to the libxml website, the ABI and API are backward > compatible. However, I have noticed some API breakage. Thus far, I > haven't noticed any ABI breakage. What have you seen? None, and as far as I understood the source, there is none. But for recompiling dependend ports I thought it would make sense, if they are updated without updating libxml2 as happend with Kirill. Increasing the library number would force the update when updating dependend ports. Jens