From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 10 10: 8: 7 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F3D37B408; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9AH7pc07207; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:07:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:07:51 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Brian Somers Cc: Maxim Sobolev , Paul Richards , Garance A Drosihn , Mike Barcroft , 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> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200110101522.f9AFMOg11391@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110101522.f9AFMOg11391@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@freebsd-services.com on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:22:24PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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