From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Feb 13 9:10:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from h132-197-97-45.gte.com (h132-197-97-45.gte.com [132.197.97.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1501B37B4EC for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:10:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ak03@localhost) by h132-197-97-45.gte.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1DHAOV01969; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:10:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ak03) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.6-3 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:10:23 -0500 (EST) Organization: Verizon Laboratories Inc. From: "Alexander N. Kabaev" To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: Proposal on shared libs version values. Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Minor/major numbers in library file name mean nothing to the loader, so there is no prioblem with that. I am not proposing to restore the old minor number semantics. Rather, I am proposing to add '.' to the 5xx versioning scheme as an eye candy and ship libraries with these numbers in without doing counter-intuitive version numbers reversals. Just imagine how often these poor folks who bother to answer to postings on -questions from time to time will have to explain why 5 is >= than 5xx otherwise :) On 13-Feb-2001 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Alexander N. Kabaev" 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.. 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 > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Alexander N. Kabaev Date: 13-Feb-2001 Time: 11:58:15 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message