HEADS UP: compat6x

[John Hay]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 10:38:54AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Rene Ladan wrote:
> 
> >Marcus Alves Grando schreef:
> >>Hi list,
> >>
> >>I make compat6x port. If someone need or can help to test, please
> >>download shar here:
> >>
> >>http://marcus.grupos.com.br:8080/patch/compat6x.shar
> >>
> >>Any feedback are welcome.
> >>
> >Would this be a nice opportunity to bump the version of libpthread.so ?
> 
> Se the other thread(s) in current about that.  In short,
> yes we have to bump libpthread.so but it should be done
> along with bumping all libraries.

But even in all those other threads, never had there been a decent
answer why it is good to have two incompatible libraries with the same
number. It can only cause hurt.

I still vote for bumping lib versions as soon as we do something that
cause them to be incompatible with the same versioned one in a release.
Having api churn in a lib version that is only available in -current
is much more acceptable that churning a lib that have the same version
as one in a release.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay at meraka.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org