From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 9 11:56:33 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 8A3EF15198 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:56:30 -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 MAA15539; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:54:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA04905; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:54:09 -0600 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:54:09 -0600 Message-Id: <199909091854.MAA04905@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: Sheldon Hearn , Nate Williams , Dmitrij Tejblum , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32+ signals and library versions In-Reply-To: <37D801AF.2B97E791@scc.nl> References: <80742.936899215@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <37D801AF.2B97E791@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 > > > 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).... > > > > This is starting to sound like what would help is tighter release > > management. If changes were held back long enough for a single version > > bump to cover multiple changes, the situation would be improved. > > I'm more tempted to revert to the major/minor versioning. ELF has no minor revision number (IMO a mistake, but it's not my call). Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message