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Date:      Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:02:47 -0800
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: libpthread shared library version number
Message-ID:  <454A6B07.3090003@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061102214157.GC2028@rambler-co.ru>
References:  <454936CA.6060308@FreeBSD.org> <20061102115058.GB10961@rambler-co.ru> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611020824150.12236@sea.ntplx.net> <20061102140948.GA70915@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20061102182419.GC774@rambler-co.ru> <454A60E9.7020303@FreeBSD.org> <20061102214157.GC2028@rambler-co.ru>

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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:19:37PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:09:48AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote:
>>> Hmm, bumping not versioned libraries *now* and not bumping them
>>> again at pre-release would work, but doing it without also bumping
>>> "to be versioned" libraries is IMO pointless.  And if we bump all
>>> of them now, we'll have to bump some of them again when versioning
>>> is turned on by default.
>> No, we will not have to do it. Why would we? It's -CURRENT, so that 
>> nobody really cares about backward/forward compatibility within that branch.
>>
> I'd very much like NOT to have to recompile all of my installed
> ports on my -CURRENT boxes the day we turn on symbol versioning,
> and that will require the shlib major bump of those libs that
> will provide symbol versioning.  If we do the bump now, we'll
> have to do it again later, and that's slightly against the rule
> that we only bump them once inside a branch.

Repeat after me: *we won't have to do it* since we don't generally care 
whether or not one have to rebuild all or some of his packages in 
current due to some ongoing changes.

-Maxim



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