PHP5 and ldap

[Pieter Donche]

what the hell is a library 'bump' ??

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Mel wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 06:36:00 Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
>> I see that my /usr/local/lib/ now contains lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel 16 Feb
>> 23
>> 14:09 libldap-2.4.so -> libldap-2.4.so.6
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  307762 Feb 23 14:09 libldap-2.4.so.6
>>   etc.. so, only references to libldap-2.4.so.6, but no more
>> libldap-2.4.so.5
>>
>> [snipped]
>>
>> So php5-ldap was already the last version...
>>
>> What's going wrong and how to solve all that ?
>>
>> % ln -s /usr/local/lib/libldap-2.4.so /usr/local/lib/libldap-2.4.so.5
>
> Bad bad. Generally, programmers don't bump library versions, breaking
> backwards compatibility, for fun.
>
> -- 
> Mel
>
> Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
>    and never get to the software part.
>