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Date:      13 Feb 2001 17:45:11 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        "Alexander N. Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposal on shared libs version values.
Message-ID:  <xzpu25yv8fc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: "Alexander N. Kabaev"'s message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:41:07 -0500 (EST)"
References:  <XFMail.20010213114107.ak03@gte.com>

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"Alexander N. Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com> writes:
> I know this will sound silly, but if numbers in shared libraries file names
> mean nothing to the loader, why can't we just go back to using
> lib.so.<major>.<minor> naming convention for libc? Jumping between versions
> (5xx -> 5) just does not seem right.

Because the loader would ignore the minor number - plus, the semantics
we want are not those that minor library version numbers used to have.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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