Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:07:51 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/string strnstr.c Makefile.inc strstr.3src/include string.h Message-ID: <20011010100751.A3532@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200110101522.f9AFMOg11391@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@freebsd-services.com on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:22:24PM %2B0100 References: <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> <200110101522.f9AFMOg11391@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:22:24PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > Correct me if I am wrong, but we never actually were strongly > > enforcing forward binary compatibility, so that it should not be a > > big problem. > > I've always understood the rule to be that -stable remains binary > compatible (both forwards and backwards) while the major release > number is the same. That has never been my understanding. In fact with the rules we have for bumping shared lib version numbers; it is very hard to do unless we make -stable truely -stale. Commercial vendors who cater to "production shops" (hi Paul) do not remain forwards compatible either. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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