From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 9 9:56:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7C014C8A for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA14217; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:56:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA03831; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:56:05 -0600 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:56:05 -0600 Message-Id: <199909091656.KAA03831@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Dmitrij Tejblum , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32+ signals and library versions In-Reply-To: <37D7DE68.5441D879@scc.nl> References: <199909091436.SAA04752@arc.hq.cti.ru> <37D7DE68.5441D879@scc.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > I strongly disagree. Spitting "unresolved references" is *not* a way to > > > tell the user that he doesn't have the right libraries. > > > > I strongly disagree. This is much better than version bump. After all, > > we can add suggestion to upgrade libraries to the "unresolved references" > > message. For what it's worth, I agree with Marcel. Version bumps should be discouraged, but not totally avoided. Carrying around old libraries with older version numbers is *hardly* a burden for the users, and those folks who are running old versions of FreeBSD will not be effected at all since they will continue to keep the old libraries around. I say a version bump is the better solution, since the linker will 'Do The Right Thing'. Yes, we shouldn't version bump every time someone has a whim, ending up with 10 version bumps/week, but neither should we avoid them altogether and cause the Linux syndrome of programs refusing to work because they have the *wrong* version of glibc2.3 (or whatever).... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message