Marco van de Voort wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:56:38PM +0200, Micha Nelissen wrote: >> the library name correctly according to that distro's packaging rules) >> then all dependent software is automatically recompiled for the new >> version (and name), and thus no one notices any breakages. Except 3rd >> parties like us. > > This is not for inbetween releases, since not all software will be > automatically recompiled in all cases.
Then a lot of users of FreeBSD tracking 6.0 or development, or how you'd call it, should have gotten into trouble as well (since there were no symlinks) ? > And in this case specifically it > doesn't matter at all. What doesn't matter and why ? > Moreover source and binary packages can be used > together (and in practice, are), and there are build clusters (pointy hat) > that check this. What do they check ? > It only is true for full releases, since that forces all apps to recompile, > then we get the heat. But this is also so on Linux, usually we only get the > indication that something is wrong when new distro (+version) emerges. Mainly I guess because we do not have manpower to check more often :-). Not that I'm saying we should have to check that often... Micha _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
