libpthread shared library version number

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:41:57AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:19:37PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > >On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:09:48AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > >Hmm, bumping not versioned libraries *now* and not bumping them
> > >again at pre-release would work, but doing it without also bumping
> > >"to be versioned" libraries is IMO pointless.  And if we bump all
> > >of them now, we'll have to bump some of them again when versioning
> > >is turned on by default.
> > 
> > No, we will not have to do it. Why would we? It's -CURRENT, so that 
> > nobody really cares about backward/forward compatibility within that branch.
> > 
> I'd very much like NOT to have to recompile all of my installed
> ports on my -CURRENT boxes the day we turn on symbol versioning,
> and that will require the shlib major bump of those libs that
> will provide symbol versioning.  If we do the bump now, we'll
> have to do it again later, and that's slightly against the rule
> that we only bump them once inside a branch.

Does that rule still matter since the new rule with symbol versioning
will be that we don't bump them.  Period. (at least for libraries we
control)?

-- Brooks
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