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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Jason E. Hale" <jhale@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r438600 - in head: audio/gogglesmm x11-toolkits/fox17
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On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 07:03:59AM -0400, Jason E. Hale wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > ...
> > Given than shlib major version remained the same it looks like ABI was
> > not changed and consumer port's PORTREVISION bump was unnecessary.
> 
> It may seem that way, but this is the development version of FOX
> (1.7.x). The API is unstable and each new version is not guaranteed
> (and unlikely) to be ABI compatible with the previous version. In
> fact, if you run an application built against a previous version of
> FOX-1.7 with a newer version installed, you will get an error like:
> "FOX Header (v1.7.58) / Library (v1.7.59) mismatch!" and the
> application will not start.

I see; thanks for explanation.

> So, unfortunately, consumer ports need PORTREVISION bumps after *every*
> new release. I should probably put a note about it in the fox17 Makefile.

Good idea, please do.

./danfe