* Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071217 17:42] wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, John Baldwin wrote: > > >On Friday 14 December 2007 03:49:07 pm Daniel Eischen wrote: > >>deischen 2007-12-14 20:49:07 UTC > >> > >> FreeBSD src repository > >> > >> Modified files: > >> lib/libc Versions.def > >> Log: > >> Increment the version namespace for 8.0-current. New symbols and > >> symbols whose ABI has changed should be added to FBSD_1.1. > > > >Why do new symbols have to be added to 1.1 instead of 1.0? > > There is no technical reason they cannot be, but this is what we > decided some time ago. That each time head is branched, a new > version is created and new and ABI-changed symbols get added to > it. It makes it easy to track when (initially in which major > FreeBSD version) symbols get added. I should have also noted > that this was discussed with kan and das (not des) prior to > commit. kan's other comment was that this would also make it > easier to write tools that can tell if an application built on > release X can run on release Y (where Y < X). > > We can still MFC new symbols back to prior releases, we just > have to add them to the same namespace from which they came.
Daniel, is there anything preventing us from matching version numbers with release numbers? This would make things a bit more intuative. -- - Alfred Perlstein _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
