Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:57:36 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Threading/KSE problem Message-ID: <20050921205736.GA31449@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200509211645.36060.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0509201446510.9634-100000@sea.ntplx.net> <200509211645.36060.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:45:34PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 02:55 pm, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > I don't think anyone thinks that. But I prefer the old way. If we're > > not properly keeping track of our ABI changes and what they affect, > > then let's work on that problem. Symbol versioning isn't going to > > solve that for us anyways. > > Yes, symbol versioning requires the same level of discipline as the more > constrained library version number bumping. If we have decided that our > developers are too incompetent to properly bump library versions for ABI > changes then they are also too incompetent to handle symbol versioning. > Furthermore, even with the massive library bumps, we have still stuck our > collective heads in the sand and ignored all the port library version > numbers. In theory they should all be bumped for 5 -> 6 as well. Which is impossible to do since it's a 1-dimensional space and the upstream vendors are likely to bump their version next week anyway. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDMck/Wry0BWjoQKURAr9YAJ41XTkxE2MhkVa8xkKAEORYJPnM8QCfTHCr uiyGIdZ+N/Lz/0fRjVaPiO8= =Gosv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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