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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:11:47 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Proposal on shared libs version values.
Message-ID:  <3A89A313.4E5B6865@newsguy.com>
References:  <200102131717.f1DHHNW39519@harmony.village.org> <200102131941.f1DJffU66659@mobile.wemm.org> <20010213130926.A79651@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:41:41AM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > When libc is built, we could link it with "-h libc.so.5-13-Feb-2001"
> 
> Actually I think I like libc.so.5.<date> to stand for a development
> version of libc.so.5 better than the libc.so.500 scheme.
> libc.so.5.<date> gives a better matching of what the shared version
> number would be when released.  It also makes it very clear when the
> incompatible change happened.  (encoding of date left unspecified)
> 
> Opinions?

Keep the date in ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd), otherwise 5-14-Feb-2001 would
get priority over 5-13-Mar-20001. (Unless I skipped this discussion too
much, but the point still kind of stands.)

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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dcs@freebsd.org
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