No libc shared lib number bump ?

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Fri Nov 9 13:01:04 PST 2007


Quoting Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org> (Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:05:48 -0500 (EST)):

> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Julian Elischer wrote:

> > I'm pretty sure there will be future version bumps despite the assurances of
> > the "symbol versioning cabal" that there won't be.
> > So I think it should be left at 7 to allow that to happen in the future.

I have the "never say never" mentality, so I can understand your
opinion.

> Well, there shouldn't be.  But even if there is, there is 0.0, 0.1,
> etc.

I thought such minor versions are ... "bad" ... at least in our ports
we put a lot of effort to get rid of them back in the times when we
switched from a.out to elf.

Bye,
Alexander.

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