Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:24:09 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/libwmf Makefile pkg-plist Message-ID: <20020221182409.GA44592@madman.nectar.cc> In-Reply-To: <200202211730.g1LHUqQ25415@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200202211702.g1LH2Kw69894@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020221170549.GB40194@madman.nectar.cc> <200202211713.g1LHDFF25291@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020221171640.GA44316@madman.nectar.cc> <200202211730.g1LHUqQ25415@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:30:52PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > what the ports, in general, are interested in is > *source* compatibility, and the library version number does not > necessarily help at all there. Of course it helps. We have specifically instrumented the Ports Collection so that these dependencies can be detected. If the version numbers were not taken into account, then there would not be any reasonable means of detecting API changes. What exactly are you arguing? That we should drop the use of shared library version numbers from ports? -- Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc> http://www.nectar.cc/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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