Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:00:13 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc Versions.def Message-ID: <20071218100012.GQ16982@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0712172035330.3876@sea.ntplx.net> References: <200712142049.lBEKn7RJ018896@repoman.freebsd.org> <200712171419.06759.jhb@freebsd.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0712172035330.3876@sea.ntplx.net>
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* Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> [071217 17:42] wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, John Baldwin wrote: > > >On Friday 14 December 2007 03:49:07 pm Daniel Eischen wrote: > >>deischen 2007-12-14 20:49:07 UTC > >> > >> FreeBSD src repository > >> > >> Modified files: > >> lib/libc Versions.def > >> Log: > >> Increment the version namespace for 8.0-current. New symbols and > >> symbols whose ABI has changed should be added to FBSD_1.1. > > > >Why do new symbols have to be added to 1.1 instead of 1.0? > > There is no technical reason they cannot be, but this is what we > decided some time ago. That each time head is branched, a new > version is created and new and ABI-changed symbols get added to > it. It makes it easy to track when (initially in which major > FreeBSD version) symbols get added. I should have also noted > that this was discussed with kan and das (not des) prior to > commit. kan's other comment was that this would also make it > easier to write tools that can tell if an application built on > release X can run on release Y (where Y < X). > > We can still MFC new symbols back to prior releases, we just > have to add them to the same namespace from which they came. Daniel, is there anything preventing us from matching version numbers with release numbers? This would make things a bit more intuative. -- - Alfred Perlstein
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